Archive for June, 2008

Google Depress Me

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Google are certainly trying to take over the world. I need to push away from them, get rid of (all my, not just gmail) third party email accounts.

Why this? With their recent announcement of MapMaker, it’s seen as a direct competitor to OSM. And that’s not good for the community, or is it?

Some have speculated that “they’ll” come over to OSM when they discover that that have no rights and many of the liabilities over their work!

Don’t be evil, really Google, stick up to your motto.

Of course, those familiar with this sort of thing will remember People’s Map (which already has a few of my own brand copyright easter eggs embedded into it!)

Let’s see if we can do any interesting selective mapping on GMM!

Welcome to Beddington Park

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Care for a map?

Well, that’s my attempt at micro-mapping The Grange, that odd gardeney section of Beddington Park. Moo much detail?

I expect there to be errors with it, I had considerable difficulty in getting a clean GPS trace with the heavy tree cover. I suspect it’ll take me many more walks around that path before I get a good trace. It may be worthwhile finding a more sensitive GPS to try and use.

Welcome to Worcester Park

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

In a nice fully mapped state!

Just a quick post to mention the mapping party went very well, OSM is looking much better for the western half of the borough!

Tom has a good round-up posting.