User:Borbus

About Me
This user submits data to OpenStreetMap under the name Borbus. Borbus submits data to OpenStreetMap using JOSM. Borbus uses a Linux-based computer. Borbus uses a computer running Gentoo Linux.

Borbus has been an OpenStreetMap contributor since late 2010 when he got his first GPS device for his bicycle. He quickly realised that the best maps available for a bicycle are made from OSM data, but they still need a lot of work, so OSM addiction commenced. Now everywhere he goes he is thinking to himself "Has anyone mapped this place yet?"

Tools

• Garmin eTrex Legend HCx for collecting tracks
• JOSM for editing
• Digital camera for taking pictures while out surveying (later Geotagged by JOSM)
• Sanyo Eneloop batteries for never running out of power while out
• Armchair for sitting and tracing Bing imagery (but never in an area I have never been out and surveyed first!)

Data sources

The majority of my data comes from surveys and Bing aerial imagery. I quite often make use of Ordnance Survey OpenData, but I always set appropriate source tags in this case. Any other data sources I use will be noted on this page: User:Borbus/Other sources.

Pretty pictures

Places I have been in the Norwich area.

Places I have been in the England and Wales area.