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Thoughts about mapping

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Image: extract of updated MetroTrain map

Old dog, older tricks

6 September 2020449 words
Filed in Filed inDiary
Themes: design, learning, mapping, philosophical

I’ve done some good stuff in the past. Perhaps I ought to make more of that?

Photo: Part of a map of the western edge of Leeds city centre.

Motorway city of the seventies

7 December 20191,060 words
Filed in Filed inDiary
Themes: Leeds, mapping

The city that was… the communities that were. Can we ever right the wrongs of the past 60 years?

Harry Beck’s Underground Map

15 August 2019712 words
Filed in Filed inObservations
Themes: mapping, work

Is it still the ‘design classic’ it once was?

Old Dog, Old Tricks

7 April 2018461 words
Filed in Filed inDiary
Themes: mapping, technology

Sometimes, you have to go back to basics.

Mapping Yorkshire’s closed railway stations

23 August 2017840 words
Filed in Filed inSkills
Themes: mapping, transport

Because… well, why not? The Devil makes work for idle hands, after all.

Embedding a Google map

10 January 2016485 words
Filed in Filed inSkills
Themes: grumpiness, happiness, mapping, site news, technology

The joy at updating my station data map is tempered somewhat by the problems I’m having embedding it as a page on this site.

Google’s mapping changes

30 August 2015260 words
Filed in Filed inDiary
Themes: grumpiness, mapping, technology

I don’t know what they’ve done, but my wonderful rail station maps don’t work any more 🙁

Mapped into abstraction

3 September 2012248 words
Filed in Filed inDiary
Themes: mapping, technology, walking

Despite the technology at hand, finding your route isn’t always a stroll in the park.

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