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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

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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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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

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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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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

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

Meander Maps (aka jQuery Slider GIS)

Posted on 29th December 201514th October 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

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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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Mexican Hexagons! Heat mapping Vienna and more..

Posted on 9th May 201525th May 2015 by meiotic

Isn’t it amazing how much Mexico looks in no way like north-eastern Austria? But Mexico is hot, and here we’re taking a look at heat mapping.. Having recently seen demos on both hexagonal heat maps and the Qgis2threejs

Tagged data, GIS, open data, QGIS, visualisation 1 Comment

 

 

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.