Author: Donal
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Australia-Durack Electoral Division
Like a lot of people, I spent a great deal of time following the 2019 federal election results. I was (and still am) very impressed with the Australian Electoral Commission’s Tally Room where results are easily available and downloadable. It was while I was browsing their site that I came across the Western Australian federal…
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New Cork City Boundary
On the 1st of June Cork City’s boundary will change and the official city area will become almost five times larger, it will encompass Ballincollig, Blarney, Douglas, Glanmire and Rochestown. Its population will increase by 85,000 people. To put that in perspective, it’s 4,796 more people than the population of Ireland’s two largest towns, Drogheda (Census ’16 population…
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Ireland-Census 2016
I’ve had to work recently on an older Linux based machine and as such most of my usual routes to edit and display data aren’t available to me. I needed to preform a join between the Small Areas geometry and the Small Areas table, both of which are available from the CSO’s website here.…
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Perth, Australia
Australia passed the 25 million people mark shortly after 11pm on the 7th of August 2018. This got me thinking, what would a map of Perth look like showing each nationality? Over 28% of Australians was born abroad, what would this translate to in Perth terms? I took a quick look online to see if…
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Excel and Removing Columns
I had a situation today where I had a spreadsheet that contained hundreds of columns. I only needed five or so of these and I didn’t fancy going through them one-by-one to delete the unnecessary ones. I found the below snipped of VBA on stackoverflow. The code ran almost instantaneously and deleted all columns that…
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IRELAND-TOWNLANDS
In Ireland, the townland is the smallest unit of land division. They pre-date the Anglo-Norman conquest (source). What I find amazing about them is how prevalent their use is to this day. Where I grew up in Kerry, they are still used, day-in, day-out to give everything from directions to advertise property and house sales.…
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ArcPY Data Driven Pages Script
I had a situation at work a few weeks back where an individual needed 180 maps within a few hours. The maps themselves weren’t overly complex, they required satellite imagery as the basemap, some Ordnance Survey mapping overlaid with each map showcasing a particular site (in the Greater London area). I knew I wouldn’t be…
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Highest Number of Persons Born in the UK, Living in Ireland-Census 2016
I was reading an article online the other day about Brexit and I got thinking about all the Irish people (myself included, at least for the next two weeks) that live in the UK. I’ve never heard much said about the people from the UK that live in the Republic. With no surprise, the border…
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Phoenix, Arizona
I was thinking the other day about the true size of Phoenix, Arizona and its sprawling suburbs. I wondered what this would look like overlaid on Dublin. The coordinate systems are different but the below overlay gives a good indication of its size in comparison to Dublin.
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Commute to Work-Ireland
I was reading ‘Project Ireland 2040-National Planning Framework‘ and it got me thinking about what percentage of people in each ED commute for an hour or more to work. This is exactly the type of unsustainable living that needs to be avoided by promoting as much infill development as possible in existing urban centres. Below…