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Black Bear Habitat and Place Names
This is a map I made to assuage my curiosity regarding the relationship between bear habitat and place names containing ‘bear’. I used the habitat of the black bear as it’s by far the most prevalent bear species in North America.
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Most Remote Building in Ireland
Introduction I read a few excellent blog posts over the last number of years regarding how to calculate remoteness of buildings from each other. The two that stand out for me are Topi Tjukanov’s Searching for Isolation with GIS and Simon Wrigley’s Finding the most remote buildings in Britain which offer excellent methodologies on how to find…
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North or South of the River
This post is in response to a chat I had a few days ago with someone who was wondering whether there are more people north or south of the river in Perth. To answer this I’ve taken the ABS’ definition of Greater Perth (being the Greater Capital City Statistical Area [GCCSA]). The overall population of the…
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Titanic Wreck Site
A quick map that shows the location of the Titanic wreck site with graticules included:
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Driving from Perth to Sydney
I’ve driven from Perth to Sydney and back so I was curious as to what the route would look like overlaid on Europe so here it is. If you went the same distance west from Dublin you’d get to a small town in Labrador and Newfoundland called North River (population 579 in 2021).
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Megacities of the World
I was recently reading the wiki page for megacities and I decided to try out the new curved callouts in QGIS by creating the below map.
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Ireland’s Population by Altitude
I read Alasdair Rae’s very interesting post where he created a graph of Great Britain’s population by altitude. Using WorldPop data and the EU DEM I used QGIS, Seaborn and Inkscape to create the following graph for Ireland. I must do a bit of digging to see whether the 400 – 500 metre slight bump…
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Camino de Santiago
I was talking to someone recently about the Camino de Santiago and whether it plays a role in sustaining the population of the provinces it traverses. It’s a rainy Sunday here so I sat down with a cup of coffee and decided to create a population density map using data from: OSM, WorldPop, Natural Earth…
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SA2 Area with the Highest Median Age
I’m hopefully going to get a chance to get some decent maps out from the latest census so I’ve started with an easy win.
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Knockanore Hill
I was home recently and drove up to the top of Knockanore, a hill just outside Ballybunion, Co. Kerry. Its elevation is 267m and is by far the highest hill in this part of North- Kerry. This got me curious — how much of Kerry is greater or less than this elevation? Below is a…