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Mapping Industry In Calderdale
Just posted a new page about an ongoing project mapping industry across Calderdale. Click the map to view.
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Mapping with Pole Aerial Photography (PAP)
I have recently carried out a series of experiments to develop a suitable and effective methodology, using pole aerial photography, to collect photographs of a measured grid marked with targets to produce a photographic mosaic suitable for transcription. The first … Continue reading
New Meerstone YouTube Channel
To support the Meerstone Community Archaeology Manual I have over the last 6 months or so created a number of tutorial videos on surveying and GIS, and added them to a new YouTube channel.7 I have had to take on … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Archaeology training, community archaeology, diy, GIS, meerstone, Survey, Video tutorial, videography
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Meerstone Community Archaeology Manual
You can also view a video version of this post Having accidentally getting involved in community archaeology, running a successful project at Middleton Park, Leeds, that won a highly commend in the British Archaeology Awards, I have gone on to … Continue reading
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Tagged Android Archaeology, archaeology, community archaeology, meerstone
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Writing Android Apps for Archaeology with MIT App Inventor
App Inventor started as a joint project between Google and MIT in 2010, but dropped by Google at the end of 2011, this project is now being run entirely by MIT. The system is designed to let non programmers build android … Continue reading
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Tagged Android Archaeology, App Inventor, archaeology, Archaeology App, meerstone, MIT, Testing
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Test of Google (Asus) Nexus 7 with bluetooth GPS against Garmin Geko
The next installment in my Nexus 7 tests has been a proper field test, collecting more meaningful data. For this test, as before, using a Qstarz GPS818X bluetooth GPS receiver running through the Bluetooth GPS Provider, points were recorded on … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Bluetooth GPS, GPS, GPS test, meerstone, Nexus 7, Survey, Testing
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Test of Google (Asus) Nexus 7 on board GPS vs bluetooth GPS
Having recently bought a Nexus 7 I have been keen to explore its suitability as a tool for archaeology. First a test of its mapping potential using GPS. For this test points were recorded on the tablet using the Droid2CAD … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, Bluetooth GPS, GPS, GPS test, meerstone, Nexus 7, Survey, Testing
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DIY Folding Light Tent
There are many instructions for DIY light tents online which are based around cardboard boxes. Naturally these don’t fold flat for storage in a drawer. This model not only folds for storage, being folded flat also makes it very portable. … Continue reading
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Tagged archaeology, craft, diy, light tent, Low level aerial photography, meerstone, meerstone photography
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Setting up CHDK on a CANON S100 for Kite Aerial Photography (KAP)
This tutorial assumes that you know what CHDK is and have successfully identified your firmware version and loaded the correct CHDK build onto your cameras memory card (for the S100 see here and look out for the link to a … Continue reading
Stratospool Field Test
My intended field testing of my Stratospool has been delayed for a while due to other priorities. This weekend though I did get the chance to try it out. The wind was blowing around 9-10 mph at ground level so … Continue reading
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