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Where on Earth are You?
WARNING, WARNING: Unless you’ve got an hour to spare right now, delay reading this blog until later when you can sit down with a nice cup of tea and a packet of hobnobs, and give it your full...
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
An article on the BBC, today claims that Australia is the happiest nation in the World based on the strength of its’ economy according to the Better Life Index compiled by the Organization for Economic...
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Urban Smellscapes
The majority of the maps that we use are concerned with mapping what we can see and help us to navigate around our towns and cities. But for graphic designer Kate McLean what we see is only part of the...
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Google the Future
Today sees the UK release of the sci-fi film After Earth in which a father and son crash land on earth one thousand years after the planet has been abandoned by humanity. The film, directed by M. Night...
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Many ‘Waze’ to your destination
Google have been flexing their financial muscle and have purchased an innovative company delivering crowd sourced traffic information in the hope of improving their own real time mapping and traffic...
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Dark Side of the Moon
I make no apologies for this rather tenuous link to mapping to bring you an amazing selection of photographs that I stumbled upon yesterday – photographs that help us to map the universe. I have an...
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Tableau, meaning; ‘a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history’ doesn’t really do Tableau Public justice. It is a down-loadable tool which allows you to...
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Rail Network Mapping
Railway and steam buffs will know that today marks the 75th anniversary of the world speed steam record in 1938, when the streamlined A4 Pacific steam locomotive “Mallard” attained a speed of 125.88mph...
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Protecting our English Heritage
Hidden amongst the column inches about the Wimbledon success of Andy Murray, and the pregnancy of the Queens granddaughter, was the announcement that Oxford University are looking for volunteers to...
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Priced out of the market
I’m glad that the BBC can find a few quid to spend on bringing us a map based story, after spending £5 million of our license fees on the Jimmy Savile enquiry. Yesterday they served up a nice little...
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