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Saturday, February 11, 2006

Mapping Banda Aceh

So I was out on my bike today driving around with my new GPS unit mapping the city. I was also searching for a longer and better running path somewhere in my neighborhood. I must have driven for about an hour, mapping different roads out. Then I went to reset the trip information to measure out the running path and accidently deleted all the track information I had just spent all that time gathering. I had to go back and record it all again from scratch.

Well, I've successfully created a rudimentary map of Banda Aceh for my Garmin GPS unit now. If anyone is interested in trying it out, you can find it at mapcenter. It is still far from finished but should have most of the basic roads on it. Needless to say I've learned a lot about GPS, Satellites, creating maps and whatnot since I started the project.

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