March 14, 2013
Does the Greek letter pi (π) conjure really boring maths lessons from your youth? Then it might surprise you to learn that some people actually celebrate the magical number each March 14th. That date is 3/14 in American format, echoing pi’s approximate …
November 16, 2012
What’s in an address? Well quite a lot actually. Where you live is really important to a lot of people, businesses and even government. For example, addresses give exact locations to deliver mail, or to count the number of households …
November 9, 2012
It’s very important that you check the contacts on your database and update them. One of the things that does change over time is postcodes and we have a page of free tools and data on our site that lets …
Geography is for everyone and GIS is special. Both these statements are true but too often they are seen as contradicting each other. GIS is special because core GIS users and suppliers have built up a wealth of software, data …
October 24, 2012
Previously with TimeTravel it was only possible to create drive times based on driving on land. Of course, you may think this is blindingly obvious as you cannot drive over water; however when you think of our collection of islands …
August 17, 2012
Traditionally there has been a battle between the worlds of graphic content production and design houses. Most maps operate in their own coordinate system: Lat-Long or British National Grid; they talk about degrees and metres. Design pages use pixels, points, …
May 31, 2012
We were recently taken aback when one of our clients asked us if we do mapping… We thought everyone knew that GIS was our bread and butter but it turns out some of our data clients are unaware that we …
May 18, 2012
As I was pondering the Olympic organising committee’s claim that the Olympic torch would go within 10 miles of 95% of the UK population I came across a map on a web site displaying the route. From mid Wales the …
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 …
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