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Wiblog - Paul's Wibblings

New Map Software

08/07/10

After a long struggle the first public release of our mapping application, rewritten to use the Ordnance Survey's OpenSpace server is now online at last. As before it lets you browse the country using Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale maps and both create routes to download for use on your GPS and upload tracks from your GPS to see where you've been.  read more ...

OS GB 50K Mapping Errors

17/01/10

Now that my mapping software is on the Walkhighlands site I've been able to look again at some tracks from my GPS on 1:25,000 and compare with the 1:50,000...  read more ...

TrackMyJourney

20/09/08

I've written before about my little "black box" Bluetooth GPS and the TrackMyJourney software but today I've explored it some more.  read more ...

Fun with JavaScript

24/08/08

We were going to go to the Fenland Country Show at Quy today but it was bucketing down with rain this morning so we looked set to stay home so ...  read more ...

Random Tech Stuff

15/08/08

It's 6:30am and I'm wide awake for some reason so here's some random stuff, mainly for the benefit of Google's search engine.  read more ...

Is this an Answer?

01/08/08

You will remember that I raised a ticket on Multimap about the Open API. I chased it yesterday and got this reply today.  read more ...

Maps Back Online

31/07/08

So, the good news is that my mapping application is back online. It disappeared, along with Multimap's developer forum and blog...  read more ...

Munro Bagging

28/05/08

Today it was time to conquer Ben More, Mull's only Munro. It's another hard hill as you start as sea level and given how hard we both found the last hill ...  read more ...

Corbett Bashing

25/05/08

The two highest hills on Mull are a "Munro"1 called Ben More and a "Corbett"2 called Dùn da Ghaoithe and today we climbed the latter.  read more ...

Where We Walked

14/05/08

I talked a couple of days ago about how you could now upload tracks off your GPS onto my new web site and see where you'd been. Well last Saturday...  read more ...

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Current status: (via twitter)
Paul forcecast for tomorrow's ferry crossing from Orkney: SE 6 to gale 8, sea state rough or very rough. Gurk. That could be ... "interesting"
I am currently reading:

Smoke in the Valley
  by David Kynaston
Great Northern?
  by Arthur Ransome
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner

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