First, make sure you have downloaded navilink.pl (see my earlier post) and installed JOSM. On Ubuntu you can install JOSM with the following command:

apt-get install josm

You will also need to register with the OpenStreetMap site and wiki.

1. Map the Road

First record the trackpoints and waypoints. On the BGT-31 I did this by going to track, pressing the main button and selecting mark. To record a waypoint, just hold down the main button until it bleep.

2. Download data and Open with JOSM

First, I’ll change to my OSM project directory and create a folder for the information:
cd ~/Projects/OSM/
mkdir track$(date +%G%m%d)
cd track$(date +%G%m%d)

Now extract the data from the BGT-31:
../navilink.pl -o trackpoints.gpx gettp
../navilink.pl -o waypoints.gpx getwp

Now as I’m a firm believer in DRY, I’ve put the above commands in a script which you can download here.

You may want to upload the trackpoints.gpx to OSM before you start editing. A HOWTO is here.

You can now start JOSM with the command: josm

Open the gpx files you created.

3. Edit data with JOSM

The OSM guide for JOSM is here

After you’ve edited your gpx files, you’ll want to zoom out slighty and download (Ctrl-Shift-D) from the OSM servers to put your edits into context, you may want to merge some nodes after this to get everything merging properly.

4. Upload to OpenStreetMap

Press (Ctrl-Shift-U) and follow the prompts.

After a while you should get an email with notification of success/failure.

Thats it, all done!

A link to the Hiran’s blog is here and UbuntuGeek.com has installation instructions for Intrepid and Hardy here.

This means that I have a tiny bit more free time to spend on other stuff, like pimping this blog with a shiny new Ubuntu badge that you can see to your right (courtesy of crunchbang.org)

Also I can start reading the course books for my two new courses starting February, M362 and M257.

Luckily both course make use of Java and Netbeans, which I have used before, so the learning curve will be smoother than with M366 (for which I had to learn NetLogo in about 2 days to finish off an assignment)

Find it here

Came across a great alternative to Quicksilver on the Mac and Launchy for Windows for Ubuntu.

I had been using Katapult (which is for kde) a while back but this had been causing problems with the development code for compiz-fusion so I stopped using it and relied on the Alt+F2 shortcut.

However Gnome finally has it’s own version … Gnome-Do!

Download instructions here 

Also AWN is another mac-like panel for gnome (see the pic), take a look here

It was very cold and very, very wet. A lot of the equipment freezed up and wouldn’t work and setting up the site took a long time. However we got a lot of paintball in once we got going.

Last night following a couple of guides (including this one) I installed Ubuntu Gutsy on my PS3.  It’s working fine and loads ok, but the graphics mode and the wifi aren’t correct yet.

On Ubuntu when the D2 is plugged in it acts like a normal usb memory stick.

Upgrading your firmware wipes the files on your D2 so you need to do this first if your firmware is not up to date
When the D2 starts up it shows the current version number on the splash screen

Firmware and Manual

You can get the firmware from here:

http://www.cowonglobal.com/zeroboard/zboard.php?id=C08&bmenu=download

and a pdf of the manual from here:

http://www.cowonglobal.com/zeroboard/zboard.php?id=C09&page=1&sn1=&divpage=1&bmenu=download&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&bmenu=download&desc=asc&no=34&bmenu=download

Applications

A quick search for applications reveals the following flash app links (put them in the FLASH folder)

Nice game list here

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15110

apps here

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15780

more games

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15120

and yet more games

http://iaudiophile.net/forums/showthread.php?t=16397

Transcoder for D2

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=404589

Follow instructions on the forums for transcoding tips

Next is investigating how to get music on easily…