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Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

"Succeeding" with Maps

06/06/11

Long time readers of this blog will remember that back in July last year I got my mapping software working with Ordnance Survey's OpenSpace server and so our mapping site map.the-hug.net now uses OpenSpace.  read more ...

Where Am I?

22/11/10

For a while now I've been looking around for an application which I could run on my phone which would let me update my location on my web site. There's several about that do this, including Google Maps Mobile, but they tend to cane your battery as the GPS is on all the time.  read more ...

OS Graffiti

16/09/10

I've not been at my best today so I've been on the sofa reading more of Mike Parker's Map Addict and in it he talks about how the cartographers occasionally like to leave their own tags on the map, just like graffiti artists.  read more ...

Location Based Services

15/09/10

I've been playing around with the Google Gears Geolocation API with the intention of using it for a couple of projects I'm working on at the moment. In essence what the API offers web applications is some hint as to where the user is physically located.  read more ...

New Map Software

08/07/10

After a long struggle the first public release of our mapping application, rewritten to use the Ordnance Survey's OpenSpace server is now online at last. As before it lets you browse the country using Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale maps and both create routes to download for use on your GPS and upload tracks from your GPS to see where you've been.  read more ...

OS GB 50K Mapping Errors

17/01/10

Now that my mapping software is on the Walkhighlands site I've been able to look again at some tracks from my GPS on 1:25,000 and compare with the 1:50,000...  read more ...

TrackMyJourney

20/09/08

I've written before about my little "black box" Bluetooth GPS and the TrackMyJourney software but today I've explored it some more.  read more ...

Fun with JavaScript

24/08/08

We were going to go to the Fenland Country Show at Quy today but it was bucketing down with rain this morning so we looked set to stay home so ...  read more ...

Random Tech Stuff

15/08/08

It's 6:30am and I'm wide awake for some reason so here's some random stuff, mainly for the benefit of Google's search engine.  read more ...

Is this an Answer?

01/08/08

You will remember that I raised a ticket on Multimap about the Open API. I chased it yesterday and got this reply today.  read more ...

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