User:Miki
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Me
I'm Mikkel Kirkgaard Nielsen living in the Kingdom of Denmark.
I'm based in Esbjerg the 5th largest city with a population of approximately 80'000. Esbjerg is known for smelling of fish (Esbjerg was put where it is to make a seaport to the North Sea in late 1800, see Esbjerg) but today services to North Sea oil platforms are the most active industry.
I am employed as embedded software developer and I am deeply devoted to freeing software and information for the benefit of all, look at my homepage if you are more interested in me personally ;).
My maps
I've done most of my mapping in the Esbjerg area (especially detailed around my work and my house in Gammelby) but try to map anywhere I happen to drive/walk/cycle.
* Vacation 2006: Kollund and around German border, + a day trip to Als * Vacation 2007: Djursland, mostly Nørre Djurs and around Grenå
Equipment & trace logging
I use my newly acquired toys a HP iPaq h2210 and Sanav BT-48 bluetooth GPS receiver to trace. I use the VisualGPSce application for PocketPC, using gpsbabel to convert log files from NMEA 0813 -> GPX. This is rather cumbersome, though, and would like to raise time for writing a better PocketPC application especially designed for tracing.
Traces
I make a great effort of documenting my traces, writing down streetnames, notes on intersection, street numbers, and whatever meta information I can comprehend while driving. This is all uploaded in the description field of my traces (and yes, it's routinely too small, so I resort to clever text compression tricks at the moment :)
I think this is a very important task for two resaons. First, it provides the raw data for other map editors, to position elements as precisely as possible. And secondly, to be able to completely ridicule and deny any future accusations on OSM for copyright infringements. I think that is bound to happen, when the current commercial data providers feel threathened enough.
Se my traces at http://openstreetmap.org/user/Mikkel+Kirkgaard+Nielsen/traces
CO2 neutrality
One thing I try not to do (too much at least :), is mapping by car for the sake of mapping. The vast majority of my traces is done on ordinary daily errands, that I would do anyway. Thats why many of my traces are not too concentrated around any given area.
But I still can't help the fill-in-the-blanks OSM syndrom, so when a deroute is needed to cover a missing corner, its done ;)
