Ecurie Ecosse @ Merchiston Mews
During one of my many ‘Wednesday Wanders‘, I found another lovely Mews in Edinburgh. A Mews is a row of stables and carriage houses, but this one’s horsepower was upped somewhat… [link]
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Map of Common Gaelic Placenames
After posting on twitter about starting to better understand Scottish maps since learning some Gaelic, I was pointed to all sorts of interesting articles, projects, books and events on the subject. One was this Ordanance
RMarkdown Fun!
I recently went to an interesting EdinbR talk on RMarkdown and the workflow available via R Studio and its products. I’d not used any markdown before but had seen its use in documentation, and this
Animating Journeys as Maps
Over a few years going on Wednesday Wanders, I’ve collated quite a lot of data on walking routes in and around Edinburgh. In some cases this is time-stamped GPS data taken from the walk, otherwise
4 Maps of the US Electoral College
There have been a lot of articles showing up in and around the US election result either calling for the abolition of the electoral college based on its unfair representation of the populous, or the
Edinburgh’s Lost Distilleries: Newington
There used to be so much more distilling happening in Edinburgh. Aside from the big North British grain distillery and a couple of ‘craft’ upstarts potentially about to appear, almost all of that heritage has
Name That Lake!
Two things coincided this week. The imminent launch of our new UK Lakes Portal illuminated how few lakes we have recorded names for, whilst a visiting work experience student was needing something to do… It
Meander Maps (aka jQuery Slider GIS)
I forget exactly how I first came across this topic, but it’s likely I’d found out there was a town in America called England. When I saw where it was, I panned across the landscape