Laurence - Laurence ♥ maps

Last weekend, on the way back to King's Cross station after the pub, jonnytuna led us to a geocache he maintained and using a combination of alchohol memory, a mobile internet connection and (at about the time we found it) Sam's GPS, discovered it with a few years of log comments in it. I knew of geocaching before, but it was more fun than I expected and combining being outside with a geeky/mappy activity may prove irresistable to me. I've found that Garmin have their own frontend to Geocaching.com which lets you dump the caches into one of their handsets straight from the website. Neat. So I've put some into the GPS to find around Whitby. Also just arrived is a 1:25 000 map of Whitby to navigate to Robin Hood's bay to with at least emperor_tamarin. There's also a suprising amount of bog & heathland around Whitby.

Also properly discovered something I vaguely knew but only recently used properly, Openstreetmap. It's a completely open source/wiki map, created by uploading GPS track logs and annotating them. London appears to be near 100% mapped which, now I've uploaded it into the GPS lets me hit 'Find', select a pub/restaurant/something and it will guide you there. That's a use of space technology I highly approve of, but the OSM project itself is quite remarkable.