[Talk-GB] OT: Britglyph project

Tim Waters (chippy) chippy2005 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 8 12:06:31 GMT 2009


On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Ben Ward <ben at crouchingbadger.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Sorry for the off-topic here, but there's a small project going on at
> the moment to make a "glyph" across the UK
>
> http://britglyph.com
>
> Effectively it's a bit like geocaching except you take your own stone
> and photograph it there.  Perhaps this is too far off-topic for most,
> but I did map some roads in Berkshire while I was at it, which I just
> wouldn't have done otherwise. Bear in mind the deadline is the 9th
> Jan.
>
> Interestingly there's a particular lack of people in the South (mostly
> Hants/Wiltshire/Dorset) which kind of ties in with the patchy coverage
> in OSM for some of the southwest areas. Here be dragons and tinfoil
> hats. ;-)
>
> Ben

Nice little project, bonus points for using OpenStreetMap maps too, as
a map background Street option.
http://map.britglyph.com/

I laid my stone down in Leeds last month :)
http://moblog.britglyph.com/view/868038/britglyph-woodhouse-moor-hyde-park-leeds




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