User:Achadwick
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Contact
Currently residing in Oxford. If you need to yell at me about something, you can contact me at
- Email: a (full stop) t (dot) chadwick (whirlpool) gmail (little speck) com
- IRC: achadwick on #osm
- Twitter: achadwick
- Or leave me a message on the discussion tab here.
Currently wikifiddling
Nasty habit. I shouldn't really. Far better to get out and map, but sometimes people are wrong on the internet.
- I've recently tried to rehabilitate Key:disused and Key:abandoned into something sensible.
Mapping style
- Documented in a subpage.
Currently mapping
In no particular order.
- Cycle-specific things and POIs in the centre of Oxford; also trying to improve routing data there.
- Towns and villages around Oxford.
- Recently sorted: big chunks of Carterton
- On the horizon: Bicester again (after the ODbL change)
Tools
Getting around by: bicycle. Fast enough for mapping roads in town, plus you can park easily and go places you wouldn't be able to go by car. Just taken delivery of a lovely Dahon folding bike which should allow me to take the bike with me to more places by bus or rail.
Making tracks with: My phone, a camera, and a tiny little MTK-based GPS logger made by Blumax with a ginormously long record history and battery life. For editing on the go I use an Asus EeePC 901 running Ubuntu. It's tiny enough to fit in a small bike bag, more than capable of running JOSM, and has hours of lovely battery life.
For detailed mapping on foot: Osm2go for the N810 is a really neat tool for dropping in POIs and doing the detailed mapping stuff that can be missed even with a photo-mapping style. On Android I tend to use either OSMtracker (Android) or Vespucci as the mood takes me.
Editing maps with: JOSM mostly - I like the features, and I'm OK with the clunkiness. The built-in photo loading and timestamp association makes my style of photo note-taking a breeze. Still trying to like Potlatch.