(Posts are ordered latest first.)
Today I filed a Freedom Of Information request from the Royal Mail Group, for the location of every post box in the UK, with a grid reference. I’m told there are 114,000 of them. Why? I want to build postboxes.iamnear.net.
I suspect that iamnear.net works best with the things that are common, often required when out [...]
In a fit of madness, having been pointed at the data set by Ben, I added megaliths to iamnear.net. Because you never know when you’re going to need to find your nearest ancient stone circle to perform a pagan ritual and the like.
The data set is comes from The Modern Antiquarian, taking an export of [...]
I finally got around to writing and launching ‘i am near‘, a very simple application to show you ’stuff’ that you are near, in a format designed for mobile users. At the moment it’s only got pubs and megaliths in it.
Inspired by Simon Willison’s wikinear, it uses Fire Eagle to grab your location, storing your [...]
I got a new toy recently - a NaviGPS device. It’s a GPS logger with Bluetooth and a bike mount. Partly for messing with, partly for navigation and partly for contribute to OpenStreetMap.
Of course, the device needs programming with waypoints before you set off, but allows for manual input of longitude and latitudes. It’s fine [...]