May 16, 2012
The UK has been at the forefront of having and using really high quality digital geographical data for a number of years. This has ranged from our Census every 10 years to address-based products like Royal Mail PAF data. The …
May 2, 2012
Tomorrow’s a voting day for many councils in the UK so I thought I would investigate voting patterns according to our demographic classification, P2 people and places. I downloaded data from the Electoral Commission for the 2010 general election. After …
April 16, 2012
At Beacon Dodsworth we do our best to avoid making mistakes, however writing software is a complex procedure and all humans are fallible, so our software, like all software, can have bugs. Bugs can be erratic, only appearing following specific …
November 29, 2011
We have tested our under the hood ability with maps of place names in the North of England. Partly drivien by our own address in Bishopthorpe, we plotted on two maps the positions of places with ‘thorpe’ endings and those …
November 8, 2011
With the availability of web services the world seems to be at your fingertips. Send a request to a web server and the answer is returned. Each service has its own quirks so that if you want to combine services …
October 21, 2011
As you’ll know from our last blog post, our Triptrax online journey recording software is the most visual part of the Outdoor Survey solution… But it is not the whole story. As well as recording what journeys were taken we …
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