Archive for February, 2009
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Selbstverständlich müht sich unsere Verwaltung, amtliche Verbotsschilder in korrektem Deutsch zu verfassen. Das Ergebnis überzeugt jedoch nicht immer, wie das folgende “Corpus Delikti”, gefunden am Karlsruher Rheinhafen, belegt:
Finden Sie die mindestens fünf (sic!) Rechtschreibfehler auf dem oben abgebildeten Schild, markieren Sie diese (am besten mit einem roten Filzstift direkt auf Ihrem Monitor) und Zeigen sie Die korrekturwünsche Ihrer Örtlichen grammatikpolizei ;-) .
Edit: This post already is available via Google search. The translation, however, is rather poor :) .
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
So here we go again, pictures of some fungi I found during today’s walk in the (rainy) forests. White ones…
…and a voyeuristic shot:
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Der geplante Mappingworkshop wird am Donnerstag, den 05.03.2009 um 19h, in der Ottostraße 5 in Karlsruhe-Durlach stattfinden (rechts in die Karte klicken, »Set Start« wählen, Schalkfläche »Calculate« klicken und Track herunterladen).
Alle Interessierten (Vorkenntnisse sind nicht erforderlich) sind eingeladen, spontan vorbeizukommen. Zwecks besserer Planbarkeit wäre es jedoch schön, wenn ihr euch im Wiki eintragen eintragen würdet. Hier noch ein GPX-Wegpunkt für die “Hardcore”-Mapper unter uns :) .
An dieser Stelle herzlichen Dank an Fred Kunze, der sich freundlicherweise um die Organisation der Räumlichkeiten gekümmert hat.
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
Since X-mas the snow was gone. But during the last week it returned. This sun-day was the right occasion for some hiking and, err, mapping :) .
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
So wie es aussieht, werden wir es nicht mehr schaffen, nächste Woche den Einführungsworkshop zu machen. Interessenten sind dennoch herzlich eingeladen, am Mittwoch Abend zum Treffen zu kommen. Vielleicht schaffen wir es dort, einen Termin auszumachen.
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
For this year’s biking trips, I want to replace my worthy Garmin GPSMap 60Cx with my Nokia N810. But unlike the GPSMap, the Nokia is neither water- nor shock-resistant. I searched the web for a bike mount, but that led me nowhere. So I came up with a rather DIY’ish solution, which I started today:
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
readwriteweb.com has an interesting article about relational vs. key-value databases, written by Tony Bain. I’m not much into databases ATM, but as web applications push aside desktop applications day by day, one should be prepared.
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
Gebabbel will be available in Ubuntu 9.04. Just type
sudo apt-get install gebabbel
to install it.
I feel honoured. May Gebabbel’s config files contaminate as many Ubuntu machines as possible ;-) .
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
If you still think we cannot create cool 3D maps from our 2D data, see the Reit- und Wanderkarte. Though openstreetmap still lacks a consistent icon set, the map looks really great. I hope I can include the tiles in MaemoMapper on my N810 :) .
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
Guilhem Bonnefille announced the release of Viking 0.9.8. Please note that support for Google maps has been dropped recently, so you may want to keep the previous release on your hard drive.
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Today I found even more interesting fungis.
Reminds me of PUR foam:
Gelatinous ones:
And a wishy-washy one, which was moving in the winds:
The above pictures have been taken by me today. They are hereby released into public domain. For better quality pictures, feel free to contact me via electronic mail.
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Today (and two weeks ago) I’ve done some mapping in the Bienwald. Though the weather was not optimal, I needed a bit of physical activity. I wanted to map some minor paths and ways by foot which are not fun to be mapped by bike.
The Bienwald contains lots of ancient remains, which more or less all belong to the german-french history, such as the Mundat stones:
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Meanwhile, there’s a single-click-installer for Navit on the Nokia internet tablets. It will run out of the box without any further configuration, showing some place in southern germany. However, you may want to install maps covering the area where you live.
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a non-profit organisation which tries to support the project, e.g. by fundraising. For the upcoming API update from 0.5 to 0.6, planned between 2009-03-20 and 2009-03-23, it was useful to install new hardware, too. As the growth of memberships passed 90.000 citizens, new servers will sooner or later be necessary to run the project’s services during the next couple of years.
If you can spare some bucks, maybe you want to contribute.
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