[mkgmap-dev] mkgmap birthday

Thu Nov 29 16:03:19 GMT 2012

If you can place yourself on the world, suddenly it is a smaller place.

Many happy returns & thank you all.

Lambertus <osm at na1400.info> wrote:

>Congratulations Steve and anyone on the list who contributed to this 
>great project! Mkgmap has really become a remarkable application.
>
>On 26/11/2012 21:46, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On this day, 6 years ago, revision 1 was committed to svn.
>>
>>     $ svn log -r1
>>    
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>     r1 | steve | 2006-11-26 20:46:08 +0000 (Sun, 26 Nov 2006) | 1
>line
>>
>>     Created mkosmgmap project
>>    
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> As you can see it originally had a slightly different, but equally
>> hard to pronounce, name.
>>
>> It took less than a month to get the first working map, primitive as
>> it was, and it has grown massively from there.  I never have imagined
>> at the time that it would still be getting bigger and better all this
>> time later.
>>
>> I'd like to thank everyone on this list who uses mkgmap and
>especially
>> to those that have helped to develop it in the past and those that
>are
>> doing so now.
>>
>> To celebrate I thought that I would break everything ;)
>>
>> I've updated the www.mkgmap.org.uk website to make it easier to add
>> content, documentation, short news items about new features etc. in
>> the future.
>>
>> You can now also sign up and get svn access to your own branch on any
>> of the projects. If you already have svn access that you've used
>> in the last couple of years, then you already have an account with
>> the same login details as your svn account.
>>
>> There may be problems with things missing from the web site,
>> subversion commit permissions, commit emails to the mailing lists
>etc.
>> I'll probably notice from the error logs, but if you notice something
>> wrong persisting, then let me know.
>>
>> Best wishes to all.
>>
>> ..Steve
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