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25 January 2009

Chris Lawrence: In which I admit I am a dork

Instead of doing something productive today, I spent the day in San Antonio at an OpenStreetMap mapping party. I got to meet some interesting folks and play OpenStreetMap teacher some, and it s nice to be reminded that at least one of my dopey childhood hobbies has some practical application in the real world. And of course I got to put some more miles on the new car, which was fun too. Thanks to the folks at CloudMade, and particularly their community ambassador, for putting the meeting together as well as for the swag. I can t quite figure out how they think they re going to make money off of OSM, at least until the OSM data gets in a lot better shape, but I suppose that s their problem and not mine.
By the way, for those who ve hung on until this point (or were actually looking for some useful OpenStreetMap advice), here s my GPSBabel recipe for converting NMEA track logs from my Amod AGL3080 GPS logger into GPX track logs that can be imported into OpenStreetMap: gpsbabel -t -i nmea -f infile.log -x simplify,error=0.0005k -x discard,hdop=6 -o gpx -F outfile.gpx Basically this throws out bad GPS fixes and simplifies all of the data to throw out any points that would deviate from the current straight line by less than 0.5 meters. At least with the Amod GPS unit once it s got a good fix it seems to stay pretty accurate, even with the static navigation feature off (using the SN OFF firmware), as long as you don t leave it somewhere under partial cover.

26 July 2007

MJ Ray: The Dopey Tour de France

After my comments about the TV audience figures, Ismael Valladolid Torres commented:
"Audience in Spain will keep on raising while Contador keeps playing such a big race!"
I hope that's still the case after the recent revelations. The evidence suggests that Vinokourov had someone else's blood [tdfblog] and Cofidis's Moreni was using something like a nutsack patch [tdfblog] while Rabobank have fired race leader Rasmussen for telling them he was in Mexico when he was in Italty [tdfblog] so it looks like this year's race is still really unpredictable as the dopes are caught and kicked out. Maybe my hopes for a Valverde (now 6th, 10:18 back) win still stand a chance... (My "serious" prediction, Kl den, left with Vino.)