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Open Street Maps

February 5, 2008 on 8:32 pm | In Uncategorized |

So, over Christmas I got a Garmin eTrex (the basic one) second hand from someone on eBay. When I visited my parents I noticed that my Beckermet looked a little non-existent on Open Street Map. So, I though that I’d do something about it. Tracing from the Yahoo images isn’t possible because at any sort of sensible zoom level everything looks like a brown blob so the GPS was the only way to do it.

Here we have Beckermet before

and now after

I do have one confession. I appear to have missed Kirkbeck Drive, oops, I’ll have to do it next time I’m back. I’m also missing some road names, largely because they don’t have signs on them anywhere. I’ll have to look to see if they’re on out of copyright maps.

Care for a look? - Take Me There

Plans for next time include taking my bike to do some of the roads leading away from the village and some of the national cycle routes obviously.