Archive for August, 2007
City of London Orienteering Map
Saturday, August 25th, 2007I’m going to have quite a lot of spare time over the next year (more on that shortly) and one of the projects I’m planning on doing is creating a City of London Orienteering Map, to ISSOM spec, for a possible future sprint orienteering race. There is already an orienteering map of the area, although [...]
Events this Autumn
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Based on the BOF fixtures list and other sources, these are the events I’m planning on going to in the next few months:
[snip - moved to my schedule page]
Fringe Day 3. Shakesphere at B…
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Fringe Day 3. Shakesphere at Breakfast ****. Someone Who Will Look Down on Us ****. Now heading back down south. Until next year…
Fringe Day 2. Truman Capote Ta…
Monday, August 13th, 2007Fringe Day 2. Truman Capote Talk Show ***. Punt & Dennis: Stuff & Nonsense ****. Sweeny Todd ***. Amateur Transplants ****.
More Fringe Day 1 reviews. Int…
Monday, August 13th, 2007More Fringe Day 1 reviews. Into the Hoods *****. News Revue *****. Political Animal **.
At the Edinburgh Fringe with N…
Sunday, August 12th, 2007At the Edinburgh Fringe with Nick & Alex. Day 1 Part 1. The Early Edition ***. Duck Variations ****. Painkillers ****. On Wonderland ***.
Back (Part 2)
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Back from the Scottish Six Days, my second week’s orienteering this summer. Now at my parents’ house near Edinburgh, currently planning shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival over the next three days. To be precise, I’m lazing about while Alex and Nick are doing the planning…
Summary of the Scottish Six Days - great [...]
OO Cup Maps
Saturday, August 4th, 2007I’ve put my maps from the recent OO Cup 5-Day event in Slovenia on my Routegadget install here. You can also view the maps individually (1, 2, 3, 4, 5.)
Here’s my favourite part out of all the OO Cup areas this year. One word: Karstastic.
OSM Update
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007The rendering for my first mapping for Open Street Map project has now appeared on the online service:
Compare with what it was like before.
My next OSM contributions will be some alpine roads in northern Slovenia. I got some good GPS traces for many of the roads I travelled on during last week’s holiday. Here’s a [...]
Back
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Back from an awesome 5 days of orienteering at the OO Cup in northern Slovenia. Had some time to be a tourist too.
I will (of course!) write up each day in full when I get the time but, to sum up the week in a few phrases: Rustic chalet on remote farm, alpine shepherd [...]