Archive for May, 2009

OSM Badge Proposal

So one of the topics that was prevelant at Where 2.0 and WhereCamp last week was how to get more people mapping for OpenStreetMap.  I’ve been thinking about this topic quite a bit lately and my conclusion is some healthy competition might keep people interested.  Introducting competition has the potential to encourage people to map, [...]

May 28, 2009   Posted in: OSM  4 Comments

Using a Columbus v900 as a tethered GPS with OSX

At the Baltimore OpenStreetMap Mapping party Russ from CloudMade showed us a small GPS the Columbus v900. Here is a link to his review of the device.   I had been using my iPhone to contribute to OSM, but found it problematic if I need to do something else with my phone while I [...]

May 16, 2009   Posted in: GPS, OSM  3 Comments

Twitter/Latitude Location Updater

Today Google opened up the Latitude feed so you can get your Latitude location in a KML or JSON feed.  I have been working on a longer term project to create a Twitter updater service but to play with the Latitude feed I wrote a quick Ruby script.  With the json and twitter gems it [...]

May 4, 2009   Posted in: GIS Programming, Mash-up, Ruby  Comments Closed

My Personal Map

As I got into my car today I began to input my friend’s address so GPS and Google Maps could guide me there.  I’ve been to this individual’s house countless times and really should know how to get there.  I decided I was going to navigate there without the GPS and if I got lost [...]

May 3, 2009   Posted in: Geo-art, Hand Drawn Maps  Comments Closed