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East London Updates on OSM

Recent changes I’ve made - Red/orange this weekend, green/yellow last week.
From my OpenStreetMap diary:
I’ve been making quite a few updates to East London recently, including:

Mapping Queen Mary (University of London)’s main Mile End Campus in detail, including all the buildings, the paths and other features. It was good to make use of a lot of [...]

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City of London Race Featured in “Focus”

The City of London race, held back in October, features prominently in the latest issues of British Orienteering’s magazine, Focus - a competitor leaping over a wall outside the Gherkin is the cover photo, and there’s a two page article inside.
You can download the issue here.
The race will also has a five-page feature in [...]

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Danbury Mapping Party

Instead of orienteering today, I organised a mapping party for UCL Geography. Three of us trekked out to Danbury, a historic village on a hill in Essex. Danbury lies just east of the extent of the high-resolution Yahoo aerial photography, so is almost completely unmapped. The village neatly splits into three main areas, so we [...]

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Time by Wire Lecture

I went to see this excellent public lecture at the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology), given by the Curator of Timekeeping at the Royal Observatory. The presenter was clearly passionate about the subject and was full of interesting anecdotes and stories.
The lecture is online as a webcast (see the panel below) and well worth [...]

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Event Categories

BOF has this week started implementing the three-tier structure for 2009 orienteering events. What this means for the fixtures map is that all events from 1 January onwards are in category 2, 3 or 5. It’s difficult to spot the district-style events (i.e. the ones with 6 or so colour-coded courses) as they’ve all been [...]

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iFreeThePostcode

John McKerrell has a new, free application on the iPhone App Store - it takes your current location and allows you submit the postcode for that location.
Why would you do this? It’s all about building a dataset of UK postcodes, in the public domain. The current database is owned by the Post Office, is expensive [...]

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Map of Maps

My UK orienteering events fixtures map has steadily grown in popularity - from around 7,000 monthly views last December to 11,000 last month. The link from the national federation’s web page contributes to 40% of the incoming traffic, with Google second on 6%. The continued interest is encouraging, and I hope to spend some time [...]

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ITO Maps

I went along to an interesting talk today, by Martin Dodge on user generated cartography, focusing on OpenStreetMap. One of the websites he showed was the ITO website, which has a mode where you can view OSM data, highlighted according to various filters.
Here’s a graphic from ITO showing the Victoria Park area of East [...]

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Demographics

Here’s an age/gender breakdown of pre-entries from the City Race earlier this month:

It shows a good representation of “Open” class entrants - aged between 21 and 35, with the proportion of males-to-females reasonably balanced. There is the familiar participation dip, followed by the “baby boomer” surge - here, women are much more poorly represented.
This [...]

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Route Variations

Over 100 people posted their route for the City Race to RouteGadget, and looking at the resulting routes reveals some interesting variations in route choices taken.
Here’s some of the “best” legs, in terms of the variation of routes taken, focusing particularly on variations of the top-placed runners.
Six of the top eight runners on the Men’s [...]

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