Geocaching

It's been a while between caches, but on the advice of a friend of Stinker we headed out from Tamworth and found Pride and Prejudice (near Uralla).

Open Street Map

While in Tamworth I did a bit more survey work for Open Street Map. I suspect the map of Tamworth has a bit over 50% of streets mapped now.

Feedmap?

I removed my link to feedmap.net today. It used to provide links to blogs geographically close to yours, along with a nice map. For a while now it has been saying that my blog is in The Sound in Wales, and the clickable map is gone.

GeoURL provides a similar capability.

Sydney cycle routes

I have been doing some work on the Open Street Map Wiki to document the state of cycle routes in Sydney.

Sydney Cycle Routes

The idea is to show the level of completeness of the OSM map, and give a link to the map (and relation where they exist).

(Sydney Cycle Map)

Cycling

After planning a new bike for a long time my wife was kind enough to buy me a Trek 7.2 FX for my birthday recently. I have only managed a few rides, but so far it's a great bike. I look forward to being a cyclist again.

Australian suburbs on Open Street Map

After weeks of preparation the import of Australian suburb boundaries into Open Street Map is now under way. Thanks to the helpful people at the Australia Bureau of Statistics who made the data available and to Franc for persevering with it.

See a sample map for Summer Hill. The suburb boundaries are the light dotted lines.

Viola Jokes

After the SMH ran a few viola jokes in Column 8 last week a colleague sent me this link.

It's a bunch of viola jokes collated by Jeff Bigler.

A sample:

Q: How do you keep your violin from getting stolen?
A: Put it in a viola case.

CMS Summer School

OK, it was a few weeks ago now, but I think it's worth posting that we all had a great time at CMS Summer School in Katoomba in January. I enjoyed the talks by Dr William Philip, but I think I probably got the most out of the missionary info sessions.

Of course I did some mapping in Blackheath and Medlow Bath while I was in town.

Summer School leaves your afternoons free to explore the Blue Mountains, so I got a chance to do some walking along the Pope's Glen track in Blackheath to Govett's Leap. The views at Govett's Leap are quite breathtaking.

Hey Man, You Got A Second So I Can Fire You?

A rather apt story from The Onion this week: Hey Man, You Got A Second So I Can Fire You?

How are we doing today? How we doin'? Great, great. You're looking good. Love the shirt. Let me guess: Christmas present? Knew it. Great. Hey man, whenever you get a sec—and it's no biggie—I was hoping you could just pop on over to my office real quick so I can fire you.