Thoughts on urban mobility services, digital cartography and data visualisation.
Many of London s tube stations act as a focal point for the community they serve, and some times even give end up giving the area it s name (Angel and Northwood Hills being two examples one named after a pub/tea-house and one the winning entry in a competition). But some are just wrong and need [ ]
Following on from its crossing of the Grand Union Canal this spring, the huge viaduct is finally built. The giant red launching girder which spent a couple of years crawling across the Colne Valley building the viaduct below itself, lies in pieces at the end of its journey, being packed up into shipping containers ready [ ]
A quick visit to the Grand Union Canal between Harefield and Denham, at the point where the Colne Valley Viaduct, part of the HS2 railway, crosses it. The construction of the two-mile-long viaduct has been creeping towards the canal for the last two years, and new the red construction girder has slid across the canal [ ]
Back in 2018, I did a London Borough Challenge visit all 32 London Boroughs, plus the City of London, in as short a time as possible. I made things hard for myself. I decided that my proof was taking a photograph, within each borough and of the name of the borough (e.g. street signs, [ ]
Yes, we did it again. All the Docks 2 took place in London on 9 July. Five teams (up from three last time) each cycled between a fifth of the Santander Cycles docking stations in London. I again did the routes, splitting up the ~800 docking stations into 5 routes of 160 docking stations apiece. [ ]
Seven years ago, I wrote We don’t have individual building age open data in the UK but that is no longer true! The MLUHC (for England Wales) and the Scottish Government via the Energy Saving Trust have been publishing individual Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), for both residential and non-residential buildings, for several years now, [ ]
In an effort to focus my (now rather limited) spare time on a more nuanced set of web projects, I have consolidated some websites. Three Blogs into One I have combined two other blogs into this one: I still write another blog Mapping London which will stay separate for now. OpenOrienteeringMap Leaves Home [ ]
At the end of each year (normally between Christmas and New Year), there s a lot to tidyup across Bike Share Map (BSM), the Meddin Bike-Sharing World Map (BSWM) and the UK Shared Micromobility Dashboard. This year, I m aiming to document all the changes needed, roughly around the time that I make the changes. Monday:
Routes I created GPX route files for the challenge. These were created manually in QGIS, using the OpenStreetMap standard Mapnik render as a background, by drawing lines, with Google Street View imagery used to check restrictions. I split each team s route into 12 stages (so 36 altogether), which were initially each just over 10km and [ ]
On Monday I spent a lot of time (over 13 hours) cycling between 268 docking stations in London. It was for the All the Docks challenge, as part of Team East, with Joe (Be.EV CCO, and ex-ofo) and Jeyda (fettle CEO). There was also an all-stars Team West and Team South (including Voi, TIER, Zwings, [ ]