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OpenSky - cover

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

Tagged aeroplanes, analysis, maps, opensky, QGIS, R, research Leave a comment
gaelic_map_v2_cover

Map of Gaelic Placenames – Version 2!

Posted on 4th October 20225th October 2022 by meiotic

Featuring: AÀA integration, new NLS map layers, community data… After the good reception to the Common Gaelic Placenames Map, I was been thinking about ways to improve it. The first iteration was based on Ordnance

Tagged analysis, gaelic, GIS, leaflet, maps, OS, research, scotland Leave a comment
Sony PS-HX500 - final result

Upgrading the Cartridge on a Sony PS-HX500

Posted on 20th February 20224th October 2022 by meiotic

At the start of lockdown, I picked up a Sony PS-HX500 turntable at a decent price. I thought it would be a fun lockdown project to record some of my LPs to digital formats and

Tagged electronics, music, research, technology, vinyl 1 Comment
MSFS - POI map

Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2020: Points of Interest Map

Posted on 11th August 202111th August 2021 by meiotic

Microsoft Flight Sim (MSFS) 2020 is now out on Xbox Series S|X, allowing more and more people to explore the world by plane. Bringing together a vast amount of aerial imagery, the game can make

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Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D Type #3 Le Mans 1957 Model

Ecurie Ecosse @ Merchiston Mews

Posted on 18th July 202020th July 2020 by meiotic

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

Posted on 26th February 202017th August 2023 by meiotic

Update, 2022: There’s now a version 2 to explore. 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

Tagged analysis, gaelic, GIS, leaflet, maps, OS, research, scotland 7 Comments
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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Low Poly Fish

LowPoly Fish: UK Freshwater Species

Posted on 8th September 201910th September 2019 by meiotic

I’ve recently been working on amalgamating as much freshwater fish data as possible, and ended up with a dataset with 350,000+ individual fish records. An amazing dataset, and just a subset – in this case,

Tagged fish, lakes, research, rivers, UK Leave a comment
Bloomin Algae 2019 - static

Animating Time: QGIS & FFmpeg

Posted on 6th September 20197th September 2019 by meiotic

I was recently asked if I could animate this summer’s records from the Bloomin’ Algae App, to help show the spatial patterns as well as the impact of a recent media interest in the subject

Tagged animation, ffmpeg, GIS, QGIS, research, time Leave a comment
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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Beaufort Seas - Combo 1

The Seas of the Beaufort Scale

Posted on 22nd August 201723rd August 2017 by meiotic

During some recent work with weather data, I was looking at information on the Beaufort Scale and stumbled upon a set of evocative images of the various seas at different points in the scale. There

Tagged research, sea, wind 4 Comments
Countries as Elements - The Philippines

The Longest Countries Made of Elements

Posted on 31st May 20171st June 2017 by meiotic

My pub quiz team have started setting a quiz each week to keep us in good form, with one person selecting questions for the others each week. For my last turn (full quiz here, if

Tagged analysis, chemistry, countries, data, elements, geography, quiz, research Leave a comment

UK Wind Data – TIFFs (free)

Posted on 8th December 20168th December 2016 by meiotic

It’s very hard to get decent observed wind data for the UK (and most countries, I imagine), so I was intrigued when I found a 1km resolution database of wind data freely available online. You

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Raspberry Pi - Heatsink

RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi 3 = Retro Games!

Posted on 24th November 20162nd December 2016 by meiotic

After the recent release of the Mini NES, I came across an article on building a better system for the same price, with a Raspberry Pi 3 running RetroPie OS. I quite fancied a little

Tagged raspberry pi, research, retroarch, retropie 1 Comment

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

Blimp-based aerial archaeology, circa 2006

Posted on 23rd April 201623rd April 2017 by meiotic

Many years ago now, I was part of a group looking at archaeological GIS and experimenting with the use of a small blimp and remote camera for the purposes of scientific research. These days you

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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

Seabird Density Visualisation, British Isles

Posted on 21st November 20155th January 2016 by meiotic

I wanted to do a pretty simple GIS task with some nice visualisation, and in the course of my work had stumbled upon the ‘Magic’ site the government has set up. It’s not the flashiest

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RRS Discovery – Underwater Science!

Posted on 15th October 20154th March 2016 by meiotic

This is roughly halfway between personal research and work, as I won a ballot to get a tour of the RRS Discovery – a NERC research ship that was visiting London for a few days.

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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.