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Getting back into it.

Posted by donaciano on 11 October 2009 in English.

Since my GPS was stolen I lost interest in OSM for a while. I tried using Walking Papers for a bit but I'm just too busy to pull it out and write stuff all the time so gave up on that. Don't get me wrong, Walking-papers.org is a GREAT project, but I'm a bit too busy for it. Now I've gotten a new GPS ordered and have been feeling the itch again. So while I'm waiting for it to arrive I've started to add oneway streets and other stuff I've learned in the last month of ... DRIVING a scooter. Yep. :) So I'm trying to figure out how I'll mount the thing on the dash since they don't have exposed handlebars like a normal bike. Once I get the bike and the GPS together though... the map is gonna really take off.

Also I've found a contact at the University who will pass on my OSM advocacy flyers to the professors and will personally explain the project to the computer science prof. Give that a try people, if the right CS professor hears of OSM they could design a whole curriculum around it and inspire tons of improvements in the whole workflow of things. There's a ton of great CS projects that could be done with OSM data.

Anyhow... looking forward to my new GPS and getting back into mapping regularly. :)

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