OpenStreetMap
I've had 3 flash based storage devices fail on me in the last 5 years...they have all been Olympus xD cards. I use lots of USB thumb drives, CF cards, SD cards etc, but only xD cards have ever catastrophically failed.
Today's mapping effort was cut short when the P&S camera I have spat out a card error and requested a reformat. The reformat failed. Removing the card and re-installing it did nothing. *sigh*
Now that I'm home again it's decided to start working. So much for an indestructible Muju model.
So anyway, instead of collecting the last of a section of nearby street names I just cycled into town and back along the coast. I followed a route signposted as the "NSW Coastline Cycleway".
So, it's time to research how to make a route relation to link all the streets together...
Map location is very approximate.
Discussion
Comment from c-j-b on 2 March 2009 at 08:55
I've had this problem. The data recovered from the xD card is totally random too, so it's not as if a cosmic ray corrupted the FAT..
Comment from Biogenesis_ on 2 March 2009 at 08:59
Hmm, I'm currently suspecting a physical connector problem, as the photos I took are still there.
At least while I was working at DSE I steered many people away from Olympus cameras based on their lack of reliability (about 80% of camera service cases were Olympus) and their shocking optical quality.