http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine Notes From A Strange Place Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:27:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week, in amongst a bit of a hosting problem, hill colouring went live on the cycle map. And it looks awesome! Having something more pleasing than a flat grey background really helps put flesh on the skeleton of the contour lines, but it means that some stuff needs tweaking to ... http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/08/17/hill-colouring-on-the-cycle-map/ It appears that our hosts for the cyclemap, hostmonster.com, are playing silly buggers with it, and I don't know why. I've no idea if or when it'll be back again, but I'll try to let everyone know. Update: It's back up now, and I'm resuming the update for this weeks tiles. ... http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/08/14/cyclemap-problems/ It's becoming more and more widely accepted within OpenStreetMap that what we call 'routes' are best described with relations, instead of tagging the ways. It means that we can have two routes sharing the same stretch of road without any conflicts over numbering and so on. It's become well established ... http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/05/29/look-ma-no-hands/ Time for another glimpse behind the scenes in the Cycle Map development! Elevation colouring! Hill Shading! How cool is that? (N.B. If you ever hear me asking, then the answer is one of 'very' and 'awesome'. 'Meh' is a valid response, but don't let me hear you saying it!) Now for all ... http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/05/21/hill-shade-teaser/ Wow, it's been really busy for the last few weeks. And as ever, the busier I am and the more fun I'm having, the less you get to hear about it here. I've been to see some good music over the past few weeks - drum and bass with Nia ... http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/05/21/busy-busy/ So perhaps you have used a web-interface to create new subfolders on an IMAP server. The problem is that thunderbird doesn't show them, and no amount of clicking on things seems to solve the problem or show these subfolders. The answer is to click on the account in question (i.e. one ... http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/04/21/thunderbird-doesnt-notice-new-imap-folders/ It appears to be a popular pass-time to wander the streets of Kyiv, beer in hand, and admire the giant Soviet-era statues. Which suits me just fine. Just look at those Russian abs. They knew how to make you, umm, feel impressed upon. http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/04/15/all-hail-the-motherland/ As usual, when the frequency of posts declines here, that just means there's more interesting things going on in the real world! I've also been trying to avoid writing yet another OSM post, but hey-ho, here's an update on the cycle map. Lots more areas are now rendered since I blogged ... http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/03/24/more-cyclemap-stuff/ This is the latest in my series of "I spent so long searching on google for this, trawling through out of date nonsense to eventually twig the right answer to this problem" blog posts. If you are running Ubuntu linux 7.10 (also known as Gutsy Gibbon) and are trying to get ... http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/03/13/wacom-digitizer-tablet-on-an-hp-2710p-with-ubuntu-gutsy-works-fine/ Contours are something that people have repeatedly asked me about - it's even the closing subject on my radio interview a couple of weeks ago. This weekend I finally knuckled down and got to the bottom of a few outstanding problems (with thanks, as ever to Dave), and from today ... http://www.gravitystorm.co.uk/shine/archives/2008/02/18/one-leg-longer-than-the-other/