Lifting OpenEir

A quick thanks to Damien Mulley and Justin MacCarthy for helping to raise the profile of OpenEir - the open source map of Ireland. A quick glance at my blog stats for today reveals that I've had Dutch, Italian, French, British, Russian and Canadian visitors of foot of Google searches for some combination of the keywords 'waypoints', 'GPS', 'map', and 'Ireland'. It never ceases to amaze me!

Comments

[robinb]

Hey! Just been playing around with Google Earth Plus... James have you tried connecting your GPS to it, it imports all your waypoints and clamps them to the right altitudes, very very cool. See it on me blog http://www.bytesurgery.com/gearedup/2005/07/google-earth-has-been-really.html

[James Corbett]

Yes, I've used GE to import my GPX formatted GPS coordinates and produced similar tours with GPS paths. See the OpenEir technorati tag -

http://technorati.com/tag/openeir

for my tour of Ballybunion and Ballyheigue for example. By the way I didn't need to buy GE plus for this although I suppose that connecting directly to the GPS receiver might be useful on occasion.