Fun with OSM

Published on Feb. 12, 2010

I have to admit, to me, editing OpenStreetMap is actually a little therapeutic. Sort of like gardening. My first major contribution was when I brought my little QStarz GPS unit across Indonesia, by train, sitting against the window. The most recent ... Read more.

GovHack 2009

Published on Nov. 2, 2009 under Australia

Everybody on our team basically managed to stay up the entire night - not one wink of sleep for most of us. It has been years since I last pulled an all-nighter - but they've always been for good causes. I just did another one - and has an ... Read more.

GPS Gem Find - TangoGPS

Published on June 29, 2009

I've been looking for a simple, no-hassles GPS display program for Linux, and I believe I finally found one: TangoGPS. My requirements were quite simple; I needed something that would talk to gpsd, and display a dot on OpenStreetMaps. I've been able to do this in other programs (even ... Read more.

Charting the Hackers

Published on Dec. 28, 2008

A normal internet connection gets attacked, a lot. The majority of attacks are of the form "hello, anybody there?" -- where most people just don't answer. But sometimes, just sometimes, the question gets an answer. Depending on the answer, the attacker will start to explore. A few weeks back I ... Read more.

Baby Steps at Graphing Traffic

Published on April 27, 2008

You can likely tell that I've been having some fun with graphing and mapping recently. I was reading a few articles about GIS and stumbled upon a pretty darn cool project at Webopticon, which included cool pictures. I showed it to my girlfriend thinking she would find it interesting, ... Read more.

Crappy Traffic Graphing

Published on Dec. 30, 2007

Status: 10% I've heard that Sydney is one of the most livable cities in the entire world -- a statement I would generally agree with. However. whoever made this statement obviously didn't drive to work every day. I've reached the conclusion that one of the biggest (and only) ... Read more.

I Hate GeoIP Advertising

Published on March 15, 2007

Remember, I'm in a coffee shop? GeoIPized Girls = have to sit with back to wall.GeoIP is the concept that allows you to map a user's IP to the country it came from (I hacked up my commenting system just so you can see ... Read more.