User:Andygates
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About Me
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| GARMIN DOWNLOAD: I have a fresh Garmin build for UK & Ireland OSM data (routable) plus SMC contours to give a UK & IE OSM Topo for Garmin. It's available here: http://www.ravenfamily.org/andyg/maps Munky - a richer style with many more POI, cycleway blazing, better POI text, etc. |
Triathlete geek lurking in Crediton, Devon, UK. Recently got a blow-up kayak for geohashing. :)
Current mapping interests:
(mostly just updatey bits, Devon town detail, and the dreaded waterways of the Somerset levels)
- Did lots of Haiti mapping.
- I'm interested in making a renderer that builds EPUB atlases for readers (yes, I got a reader for Christmas ;) ). There's an interesting navigational challenge here. Maybe draw detail centered around major POI (settlements, etc) and then build an index page; also an overview of the area.
- Picking off the little villages and footpaths as an excuse to get out for bike and run training, and making That Perfect Style so that the Garmin extracts are rich without being cluttered, gorgeous without being fussy.
Routes I'm working on:
- Two Moors Way 228450 b a r j
- East Devon Way 272293 b a r j
- Ridgeway 8879 b a r j
- Exeter Green Circle 272308 b a r j
Here's Cadbury Castle, walked and then tagged with man_made=embankment, overlaid on Google Earth to show how accurate a wandering goon with a vanilla GPS unit can be!
-- Check the Diary for more diary stuff....
24 july - mapped Sandford. Have been busy with long bike rides and adding bits and pieces...
24 May - Mapped Kenton and some Dartmoor stuff around Meldon.
13-Mar-02009: Been polishing my routable Garmin to the point where it's a single-click to download fresh data, build the maps, upload them and tweet about it. Also: micromapping at work, getting the buildings right.
23-Feb-02009: Wrestled with the toolchain to get a routable UK & Ireland map. Preliminary tests are filled with win. Props to the osm2mp and mkgmap coders, this really makes OSM prime-time on Garmin!
14-Feb-02009: Copplestone done in detail.
07-Feb-02009: Newton St Cyres north side.
24-Jan-02009: The south side of Newton St Cyres. North side yet to do.
18-Jan-02009: Stoke Woods by foot, getting all those paths. Very muddy!
17-Jan-02009: My first micromapping bike ride, to get Newbuildings done. Can't believe that I lived there for years and still learned stuff just in an hour! JOSM'd up and lovely.
