Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
The Kilmurry Lodge Hotel in Limerick is playing host to well over 100 mapping enthusiasts this weekend, for an in depth view of the Open Streetmap project. Thanks to a persuasive Steve Coast, and trojan work by one Christian van den Bosch, the second international State of the Map conference was brought to Ireland; and thanks to the generous loan of equipment and expertise from HEAnet, the Irish NREN, we have the technology to make video recordings of the presentations.
It's been fantastically interesting thus far. I brought a car full (literally, including the entire back seat and some of the passenger seat) of cabling, adaptors, microphones and gaffer tape. I've used most of what I brought :)
We've been a victim of our own success, for the first time running out of IP space in the /16 allocated to wireless networking. I'm now regretting only bringing a single wireless access point, though dropping the lease time for the addresses appears to have helped. I was also marginally surprised at how many of the devices in the DHCP table were obviously iPod / iPhone type devices. It would appear that the average Open Streetmap contributor is slpa bang in the middle of the Apple target market :)
I'll post up links to the talks as soon as they're available.
Edit: Of course, I meant that a /24 was allocated to the wireless access point. I've never managed to make OpenWRT handle anything over a /24's worth of addresses. Apologies for implying that we had upwards of 64,000 devices on our conference network: my guess is it was more like ~300.
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