canada, china, maps, nanjing, personal, urban planning
Just when you thought I couldn’t become any more of a map geek, I go pull something like this. Openpistemap.org is another open source, wiki style mapping project out to usher the world of skiing into convenient online map format. It operates using OSM data, but adds a few more rendering options in the side [...]
14 Feb 2011 Bryan 0 comments
canada, Mackenzie, urban planning
In addition to eating my way through Neal Stephenson’s gigantic Baroque Cycle hyper-marathon, one of my ‘stay sane’ activities over the past eight months has been heavy involvement in the Open Street Map project. Essentially OSM is a user-generated online slippy map, along the lines of Google Maps. Features are added by users using licensed [...]
06 Feb 2011 Bryan 0 comments
canada, entertainment, life, personal, urban planning
I have probably watched more television since returning home then I have in the past ten years. My years of television absence was largely the product of laziness in the sense that I was too much of a couch potato to actually go out and buy a television set, opting instead to watch downloaded films, [...]
01 Feb 2011 Bryan 0 comments
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