Tag: mapping | Michael Rawlins

BBC map of the UK mainland

published on April 25, 2014 by Mike Categories: General Rambling #Tagged: BBC, mapping, Maps, Scotland

I’ve just come across this image of the BBC UK mainland map on Twitter. Someone has taken the map that the BBC use (looks like the weather map) and overlaid it on to a normal map of the UK. Playing it politically neutral and staying away from the referendum, is the map designed to skew […]

Foursquare Heatmap

published on July 8, 2013 by Mike Categories: General Rambling, Social Media #Tagged: FourSquare, Geolocation, Heatmap, Locations, mapping, Mayorships

I’ve mapped my Foursquare checkins to create this heat map. The map shows data from over 1700 checkins with Foursquare over the last however long I’ve been using it.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council planning applications mapped

published on October 2, 2012 by Mike Categories: Internet #Tagged: Geolocation, mapping, Maps, Planning, Planning applications, Stoke-on-Trent City Council

I’ve been playing about with geolocation of content for my work at Talk About Local, one of the feeds we have mapped in to an Augmented Reality application is Planning Applications. Having the data within an app for you phone is great but sometimes you want to see it on your desktop machine @ian_norris had […]