[talk-au] 'Break in' the list

[John Clarke]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 06:30:19PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Brendan P wrote:

Hi all,

> > I thought that I might jump in and introduce myself with the hope of kicking 
> > off some activity and to get an idea of who else is out there and where.
> 
> Ooh.  I'll do the same - the list has about a dozen members now from

OK, my turn.  I'm also in Sydney (Lindfield on the north shore), and
although I first found out about OSM a couple of months ago, I only
started mapping yesterday.  I found that there was a hole in the maps
near home, so I did most of the nearby area, whatever I could do in an
hour or so of driving around.

I used JOSM and it seemed pretty easy to use.  The only thing I needed
to do but couldn't figure out how was how to create an area (for a car
park).  Any clues would be appreciated.

I have a NaviGPS (SiRF II chipset) which I find to be generally pretty
good, except when travelling slowly.  It seems to hunt for a position if
you're not moving much, even at walking pace, but when driving it's
fine.  It logs in NMEA format on a removable SD card, and even logging
at one second intervals only uses about 1MB/hour.


Cheers,

John
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