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Cycling to work in London
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I started cycling to work about four weeks ago. Yes. I took the plunge and became a “London cyclist”.
Cost was the first thing putting me off. I considered a dodgy Portobello road market £50 bike, or a more ligit second hand one for ...
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08/26/2010 03:09
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Talks and thoughts on OpenStreetMap mapping parties
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(photo Copyright All rights reserved by SINFOGEO)A few weeks ago we had a big OpenStreetMap conference, the annual “State Of The Map”. This year it was in sun-baked Girona. “State Of The Map 2010 felt like a coming together of all ...
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07/24/2010 13:21
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Ruby code for converting to UK Ordnance Survey coordinate systems from WGS84?
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Ruby code for converting to UK Ordnance Survey coordinate systems from WGS84? It’s one of those things I’d assumed would be a five minute search -> cut-n-paste job. But no. Well now you can cut & paste from here.
Using Proj4 and ...
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06/29/2010 08:42
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Paul Downey and London Wiki Wednesdays
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Last Wednesday was London wiki wednesday again. We struggled a bit with organisation this time. The usual to’ing-and-fro’ing around finding sponsors and hosts was confounded by a problem with the website. SocialText foolishly switched it ...
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05/10/2010 10:22
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Aid Information Challenge
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I’m at the Aid Information Challenge day watching the final hack presentations. This seems to be part of a series of hacking events happening at the Guardian offices, following on from rewiredstate National Hack the Government day (where I ...
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04/10/2010 11:06
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