I've only just started paying attention to the fact that there's a total solar eclipse in the United States on 21 August this year....

There has been a fairly long-running debate in the UK media about the extent to which golf courses cover the landscape. I've been wor...

It's 2017 and there has just been a General Election in the UK. In case you're reading this in the future, I'm talking about th...

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 ...