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Stretching things a bit…
Long-time reader reader and friend of the blog Bev Lloyd pointed out via Facebook that she liked the topographic thing I occasionally do with maps, where I pull them into 3D representations of the con… more →
BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog
Stretching things a bit...
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wrote 15 hours ago: Long-time reader reader and friend of the blog Bev Lloyd pointed out via Facebook that she liked the … more →
The Drifters
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wrote 1 day ago: Right, I thought, let’s do it. Following the recent attention to the Anglesey Wharf and coal screeni … more →
On the conveyor?
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wrote 1 week ago: I picked up a really good map recently. It’s a 1:2,500 plot of eastern Chasewater, the Anglesey Basi … more →
Map-reading for beginners
wrote 2 weeks ago: I do not have a natural sense of direction. A friend once claimed that you could tell the correct wa … more →
Ordnance Survey Aviation Maps (1938)
wrote 2 weeks ago: Click to view slideshow. We have two aviation maps : Sheet 1 (England and Scotland, The Border) and … more →
Something old and something new...ish
wrote 3 weeks ago: Age before beauty, so the old rock of Skomer comes first. The Harold Stone is a prehistoric standin … more →
UN Forum on the future trends in geospatial info management
wrote 1 month ago: Forum on the future trends in geospatial information management: the five to ten year vision to be h … more →
Aldridge north west, 1884 and 1914
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wrote 1 month ago: Following on from the 1884 Brownhills South and Walsall Wood map and others posted recently, I … more →
Complicated BASIC schemes
wrote 1 month ago: Nowadays, most of us have used Google Maps or OSM to get directions to somewhere or plan a route. Wi … more →
The mysterious chapel
wrote 1 month ago: I was having a look through the National Library of Scotland’s maps, and playing with the diff … more →
Map 430
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wrote 1 month ago: I do love a good Ordnance Survey map, some of them are things of beauty. My favourites are those th … more →
Weekend rambles: Brockham (3 miles; easy)
wrote 2 months ago: The village green at Brockham, which was named Surrey village of the year in 2011 The longer days, s … more →
Major-General William Roy and Choccywoccydoodah
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wrote 2 months ago: Because I’m such a terrifically intelligent and earnest creature, it well naffs me off when BB … more →
Map reading and countryside access
wrote 2 months ago: Map reading – a dying art? So several articles I found recently on the web would have it. The … more →
Met Office in the Media: 20 March 2012
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wrote 2 months ago: There has been widespread coverage of a scientific paper detailing an update to the joint Met Office … more →
A day out on the tracks
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wrote 2 months ago: Low cloud and smirr isn’t a good start to the day but plans had been laid the previous evening … more →
The SLA Event (Pt 2): Ordnance Survey Open Data and GeoVation
wrote 3 months ago: Mark Braggins has contributed his second part of reporting on the Society for Location Analysis even … more →
The SLA Event (Pt 2): Ordnance Survey Open Data and GeoVation
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wrote 3 months ago: This is the second half of a post about an event run by the Society for Location Analysis a couple o … more →
Monument of the month: Lower Halsdon Farm
wrote 3 months ago: A farm a monument? Well yes, most farms have significant heritage attached to them unless completely … more →
