Mapping Hacks

When Jo and I did an IRC interview with New Scientist reporter Will Knight,
little did we know that his piece, entitled "The New Pioneers of Map
Making," would come out so… lyrical sounding:

ARMED with a Global Positioning System receiver and a pair of itchy feet, Jo Walsh walks a different route around town each week. She is slowly but steadily building a digital map of her neighbourhood in Bristol, UK. In doing so, Walsh is reinventing the pioneering spirit, for she is one of hundreds of people using cheap, off-the-shelf satellite tracking equipment to make their own maps.

You can read the rest of the article
preview on the New Scientist website, but apparently you need a
subscription to read the whole article, for which they are asking a whopping
£2.95. Perhaps they will be good enough to let us reprint choice bits for
our gentle readers, who knows. Meanwhile, I think we’d better get Jo some
lotion for those itchy feet!

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