Alan's RamblingsMy opinions may not be correct, but they are my own.Wrecks walk- April 25, 2006 On thursday last week I got a phone call from John Owen, one of the other rangers, asking me if I'd like to help out on a guided walk. I'd agreed before he told me that I'd just let myself in for, a 24km trog round seven of the aircraft wrecks that litter the Peak District. I got in contact with my friend Bob to get GPS coordinates for one of the wrecks I hadn't visited and he mentioned that he'd been having problems getting GPS data into Google Earth, so I decided I'd record the track of...http://www.bleaklow.com/blog/2006/04/wrecks_walk.html OziGeocacheUK- April 11, 2006 I've been tinkering around for a while wrapping the API to OziExplorer in Java, as chronicled both here and on my work blog. I've finally knocked together an application that uses it. OziGeocacheUK integrates information from GeocacheUK.com and Geocaching.com into OziExplorer. OziExplorer is a GPS mapping application and GeocacheUK is a database of geocaches in the UK. Hopefully this post will help google steer anyone who is looking for such a thing towards it ;-)http://www.bleaklow.com/blog/2006/04/ozigeocacheuk.html New Peak District website- April 11, 2006 A new website, Peak District News has appeared. As the "About" section as the site says: Peak District News aims to report on current happenings in the Peak District, and neighbouring area. Please bookmark us and keep coming back.er .. thats it. It's off to a good start - the first story was based on my recent moorland restoration post ;-) I'll be watching it with interest.http://www.bleaklow.com/blog/2006/04/new_peak_district_website.html Airborne muckspreader- April 5, 2006 A couple of weeks ago the Moors For the Future folks started up the heather brash spreading operations that I've helped out with before. The aim is to spread a thin layer of chopped up heather (brash) over the bare peat as part of the process of getting it to regenerate. In the past the heather has been airlifted by helicopter onto the moors and then spread by hand. This is a very time and labour intensive process, and it is quite difficult to get an even layer. This year they are using a..http://www.bleaklow.com/blog/2006/04/airborne_muckspreader.html April Fool's busk- April 3, 2006 On Saturday we invaded Mancester for our first ever busking session - and all for a good cause. Eraldo (the guy in the red jacket in the photo above) comes from Sao Paulo in Brazil where we was a member of Meninos do Morumbi, a fantastic youth-focussed Samba school in Brazil. One of the things he did when in Brazil was to raise funding to rebuild the house of one of the kids who attended Meninos - many of the kids come from the favelas, and live in pretty grim conditions. He and the other.http://www.bleaklow.com/blog/2006/04/april_fools_busk.html |