Tag: maps
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Geohashing expedition 2023-03-10 51 -1
The dog needed a walk, so we explored North Leigh Common in the dark and found a hashpoint.
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Geohashing expedition 2022-12-05 51 -1
A cycle in the dark leads to a hashpoint on a bridleway and the opportunity to improve OpenStreetMap.
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Automattic International
Off the back of a colleague's throwaway comment, Dan makes cartograms showing how his coworkers' countries proportionally dominate their world map.
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Automattic Privilege
Dan's thinks about the geographic/cultural privileges he enjoys within his international workplace.
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What's wrong with what3words?
Andrew's latest video criticises what3words. Dan piles on, too.
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Heatmapping my Movements
Leveraging a decade of past GPS data, Dan draws heatmaps of his movements around Oxfordshire.
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City Roads
City Roads, by Andrei Kashcha, is an open source project for extracting highway data from OpenStreetMap and rendering it as simplistic SVG files.
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Maps that Talk
Dan's former colleague Nick Millea shows off some artefacts that didn't make it into the Bodleian's Talking Maps exhibition.
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The family that shrank France
Another video from the Map Men, this time about the Cassini map of France and its legacy on contemporary cartography, presented in their usual hilarious style.
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The Search for England's Forgotten Footpaths
Nineteen years ago, the British government passed one of its periodic laws to manage how people move through the countryside. The Countryside and Rights of Way Act created a new βright to roamβ on common land, opening up three million acres of mountains and moor, heath and down, to cyclists, climbers, and dog walkers. It β¦
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A 2016 version of the 1914 Isochronic London/World travel times map
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The peculiar history of the Ordnance Survey
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The history of the organisation known as OS is not merely that of a group of earnest blokes with a penchant for triangulation and an ever-present soundtrack of rustling cagoules.
From its roots in military strategy to its current incarnation as producer of the rambler's navigational aid, the government-owned company has been checking and rechecking all β¦ -
How Much of My Graticule is Covered With Water?
How much of an advantage do inland geohashers have over island ones? Dan attempts to quantify the answer in the hackiest way he can think of.
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How To Set Up an OSRM Server on Ubuntu 14.04
How To Set Up an OSRM Server on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean (DigitalOcean) The OpenStreetMap project consists of raw map data, collected and aggregated by thousands of users. This tutorial covers the configuration and maintenance of a web service using Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM), which is based on the OpenStreetMap d The OpenStreetMap project β¦
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Maps Showing California as an Island Β The Public Domain Review
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/maps-showing-california-as-an-island/ (publicdomainreview.org) If California were a country its economy would be the fifth largest in the world (just ahead of the UK). Yet the tech boom is not the starkest way California has ever stood apart from its neighbours. That would surely be the maps depicting it as an island, entire of itself. Below we β¦