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OpenSky: Live Flight Data – Recursive Outputs, Auto-Rendering in R & QGIS

Posted on 8th June 202310th June 2023 by meiotic

I’m a big fan of Flightradar24 and using it to see planes flying ahead made me wonder, is there an open source way of replicating it? I came across this post by @geodose, which shows

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mergeLines concept

Merging Intersecting Lines in R

Posted on 13th January 202014th January 2020 by meiotic

I came across a problem without a clear solution. I had lots (and lots) of line segments, which represented river stretches across GB. All I wanted to do was join together touching segments into a

Tagged analysis, CEH, GIS, lines, R, research 2 Comments

Playing CHESS with Effective Rainfall (GB)

Posted on 11th December 201912th December 2019 by meiotic

It’s useful to know how much water enters a system, particularly as part of the runoff model. I’ve always thought of the budget of precipiation (Prec) & potential evapotranspiration (PET) as effective rainfall (Raineff), but

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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

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I'm Phil. I live & work in Edinburgh, Scotland. I spend my work time being an Environmental Data Scientist and tweeting about @ScienceAndMaps. I like to cut loose in the Hebrides and am trying to learn the lingo too. I recently passed on the mantle of running the Southside Whisky Club, although I still dabble in the odd whisky expirent with Maltiply and tweet occasionally there too. My research can be further explored on my Research Gate & GitHub, with more visual stuff running on my open source geospatial server, Contours. I carved a spoon and I liked it.