Archive for November 2008

Ordnance Survey in state-owned assets sell-off

The Times online, is reporting that the treasury is looking to sell off state assests including the Met Office, mapmaker Ordnance Survey and the Forestry Commission, are being prepared for sale by the government in the next two years to raise cash for the stretched public purse.

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OSM2Go – OSM Mapping on Nokia Tablets.

OSM2Go is an editor for openstreetmap.org map data. OSM2Go is designed for simplicity and user friendlyness and not for maximim feature count. It is meant for simple mapping on the road.

Take your n810 out and mark your favorite restaurant on OpenStreetMap, enter your childrens playground to the database, map your entire neighbourhood or just correct this OneWay that recently changed direction.

Screenshots from different versions:

OSM2GO3_small OSM2GO2_small

OSM2GO1_small

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Colorado 300 Review

 We’ve now completed our first hardware review.

This review is of the Garmin Colorado 300. We make some comparisons to the GPSMap60Csx.

We’ll take a look at using the Colorado 300 to go caching. Including some screen shots to wet you appetite.

Screenshot1 Whereto Geocache

Follow the link to get to the Full Review