I’m used to describing to people where I live as "Where Southmoor Hospital used to be" and this is quite true.
Idly using google images for Hemsworth to see what would come up, as I was producing a Hemsworth page on the openstreetmap wiki, and in doing so, I discovered that we live on the site of the former Hemsworth workhouse, infact the reamining buildings from what i thought was the hospital actually date to the workhouse.
I wanted to try making some of my own maps – here is I have gone about it. (Bear in mind, I am using a dell laptop running XP SP2.)
symbolsDir=”../stylesheets/symbols
to instead be
symbolsDir=”stylesheets/symbols
and put it in to c:\OSM
c:\osm\xmlstarlet\xml tr osmarender.xsl osm-map-features-z17.xml > map.svg This gives me a file that can be viewed in Firefox.With half a mind on future travels around Europe, I was wondering if there was an easy way to tag photos taken with my digital camera (currently a well worn Olympus Mju 400 Digital Camera
A bit of a search via google, resulted in discovering Prune which could take a track from my GPS, and a bunch of photos, then having told the software where on the track one photos was taken, it could work out the time difference between GPS and camera, and then show where on the track all the photos should be.
But it needs a plug-in called exiftool to actually save the files with the right EXIF content in the file. I struggled momentarily to install it, before deciding the correct thing to do is download the zip file for exiftool, and then extract it to c:/WINDOWS then removing the "(-k)" from the resultant file’s name.
Prune could then save the files with the exif tags derived from the GPS track, backing up the image files as it went.
At the time of typing, there are only a couple of photos that I have put up on flicker with geocoding, but it seems to work…
So, time off work at Christmas – its obviously time to start doing some DIY. Job No.1 was to change the taps on the basin in the bathroom.
I bought the taps from ToolStation.com as they are far cheaper than going to B&Q…. to be honest, the quality isn’t too bad, especially considering what I was replacing.
Here are the taps before I started…
First job was to shut down the water, and empty the hot water cylinder. This is achieved by closing the cold water feed to the hot water tank, and shutting off the water supply to the house. Then opening the taps in the downstairs toilet (as the lowest taps in the house) whilst opening the pressure release valve on the cylinder.
Next I could remove the flexible hose from the base of the tap – for this i had purchased an adjustable basin wrench. To be honest, there was no way i could have completed the job without it. Never mind changing taps under the bath….
and then remove the retaining nut at the bottom of the tap – using a basin wrench.
So that’s a tap removed….
All I had to do now was pretty much the reverse, and that’s the taps installed. I had bought some new fibre washers to fit inside the flexible hoses, but discovered that it didn’t look like the existing rubber washers would come out, so rather than try remove it, i used the existing. Fitted the cold tap first, and turned on the mains water. no leak. success. I then fitted the hot, and turned back on the cold supply to the hot water cylinder. that seemed to be ok too.
Trying to asses for leaks straight away was difficult as there was condensation, so I left the taps for a while (without *obvious* leak) and checked again periodically. It all seems to work…
I have just been looking at AndyA‘s cycle map that he is always going on about (though I am about to say, i can see his point…)
and looking here just doesn’t look like i think it should.
I think I will fix it.
I *have* just been shopping at Amazon
So here is the resolution, I will be taking my new toy out and a bout in the local area, on foot, and on bike, and put the data into the open street map project, and the open cycle map when its a cycle route…
That’s better than saying my new year’s resolution is to get fit.
One bottle at a time. Green Beer.
A colleague sent the following picture around, saying it was especially relevant to those in Sheffield, but really, I think its too true to the whole of South Yorkshire….
is in uh south. And has just driven past LVS…
I don’t really do coffee but when I do, its just “white, 2″ like I drink my tea. NATO.
I used “Nato” as my preference, and then had a conversation with the other party about other terms used. I had heard of a Julie (White, None) but not a Whoopie (Black, None) But Oh My Gosh, there is a genuine ISO Standard for making tea. wow.
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