Last week I was in Edinburgh to give a talk at the Edinburgh Earth Observatory seminar series at the University of Edinburgh, so I thought ...

In my last blog post I shared a shapefile with the current UK constituency boundaries, which included a lot of other data. One of the vari...

I'm probably as unmoved as anyone else about the forthcoming General Election, but to get my head back into gear for it I thought I...

This post is about visualising 'a lot', because it's something I've been thinking about as I write part of a book on GIS. T...

In my ongoing quest to answer the burning questions of our times, I have decided to continue my data-based boffinry by looking at a couple ...

Where is the best place to live in the UK? The answer is simple. It's in my street. But that's just my view. Ask someone else and y...

In 2015, after being posed the question by geodata guru Bob Barr , I decided to attempt to calculate the percentage of land in each local ...