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Sunday, 15 December 2013

Releasing data really works, Part V

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It took five days (after hours) to stand up, learn, tweak and display my East Anglia Fenlands project on Mapcentia's web service . It st...
Sunday, 8 December 2013

Free Petroleum Geodata

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Here are some free datasets useful for petroleum mapping. Links didn't transfer in SlideShare so here they are: AAPG GIS Open Files
Sunday, 17 November 2013

Around the world in 30 maps

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[ Update 2 : this map gallery is now the first pane of my personal portfolio ] [ Update 1: Apple iOS doesn't support Flash, please try...
Sunday, 3 November 2013

Releasing data really works! Part IV

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[ Update: this was summarised into a story map here  posted also on this blog here ] Two years then one year ago I QC'd UK Ordnanc...
Sunday, 20 October 2013

Releasing data really works, Part III

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More and more free data are available that are quality-controlled and verifiable. Guardian Data Blog 's @smfrogers (now at Twitter) was ...
Saturday, 17 August 2013

To Geo or not to Geo, that is the question...

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... at least in oil&gas. I always wondered why petroleum was only 5% Esri's market (unofficial from my tenure as petroleum manager t...
Sunday, 19 May 2013

A tale of two cities: web maps new and old

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Last I posted on vector online GIS, and that appears to be gaining traction. Mapbox offers through TileMill and OpenStreetMaps editing. Thes...
Sunday, 21 April 2013

Vectors are your friend, Part II (updated)

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[ Update: ESRI blog post here for clear explanation and treatment of same, thanks Eileen Buckley! See also my ArcGIS Online / Amazon Web ...
Monday, 1 April 2013

RSPB2013 bird counts mapped

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Releasing data really works , Continued RSPB 2013 Big Garden Bird Watch released data by county, listing bird counts for each county in o...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

Maps are forever (Part II)

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I wrote earlier about a 1610 map from the Harvard University Library of the Cambridge UK region, a snapshot of which I simply edited the te...