Mapping Hacks

i recall talking years ago to paul at state51 about creating a free grid system, a free national or international reference system.
the British National Grid, as defined by the Ordnance Survey, is a transverse mercator projection. The convenience of this projection is that units of it correspond to distances in metres. The Geography::NationalGrid module for […]

Since meeting on the openstreetmap list, we’ve been talking to the maintainer of navsys mapeditor on irc. From the mailing list:

due to the amount of requests, mapeditor now features a gpx loader (you
don’t even need to decompress the files)

grab it from cvs while it’s hot

Hopefully, out of all the pieces being put in the pile […]