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The Lochs of Assynt

RMarkdown Fun!

Posted on 5th September 201825th January 2019 by meiotic

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

Tagged html, lakes, maps, markdown, R, research, rmarkdown, scotland Leave a comment
Wednesday Wanders - animated journeys

Animating Journeys as Maps

Posted on 2nd December 20163rd December 2016 by meiotic

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

Tagged analysis, data, GIS, maps, wanders 4 Comments
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4 Maps of the US Electoral College

Posted on 9th November 201611th November 2016 by meiotic

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

Tagged analysis, elections, electoral college, maps, research, USA, voting 4 Comments
Newington Distillery, 1849

Edinburgh’s Lost Distilleries: #1 Newington

Posted on 5th April 20166th April 2016 by meiotic

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

Tagged edinburgh, edinburgh's lost distilleries, history, maps, newington, sciennes, whisky Leave a comment
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Name That Lake!

Posted on 26th February 201618th January 2017 by meiotic

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

Tagged GIS, lakes, maps, research 2 Comments
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Meander Maps (aka jQuery Slider GIS)

Posted on 29th December 201519th February 2019 by meiotic

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

Tagged GIS, maps, old maps, rivers Leave a comment

 

 

I'm Phil. I live, work and play in Edinburgh, Scotland. I spend my work time being an Environmental Scientist and tweeting about @ScienceAndMaps, with much of my free time being used helping run Southside Whisky Club. I spend some of my evenings wandering around hidden Edinburgh. I'm a regular pub quizzer and do badly at the Hot 100. I post daily about whisky, whilst my research can be explored on my Research Gate. I'm co-founder of the whisky experiments site Maltiply, and tweet a bit for that too. I set up and run the open source academic geospatial data service Contours.