Category: QGIS
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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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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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Over the Horizon
I recently moved to the south-west of Western Australia, close to a town called Busselton. The town is famous for, among other things, the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere (at 1,841m). The first time I walked the jetty I stood at the end and gazed out wondering if I could follow my gaze…
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A Long Way Home – Lion
Recently I finished reading Saroo Brierley’s book, A Long Way Home and titled Lion in the feature film. In it he recounts his extraordinary life story of getting separated from his brother at a train station whose name began with ‘B’ a few hours from home in rural India in 1987. He was five years…
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Population Below the Line
We all know that the majority of Australia’s population lives in the eastern states. There’s a question I’ve been thinking about with a while — if you drew a line from just north of Brisbane to just west of Adelaide, what percentage of Australia’s population (including islands and Tasmania) live below that line? Well, I…
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Unpopulated Areas
I was hiking at the weekend and it got me thinking about the unpopulated areas of Ireland. I’ve seen maps made for the 2011 census showing the square kilometres that have no usual resident population but I hadn’t seen one for the 2016 census so I put together the below. I purposefully omitted Northern Ireland…
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Airbnbs in Ireland
I was reading this Guardian article the other day where they produced maps showing the number of Airbnb listings per 100 dwellings. I thought it was really interesting and I hadn’t seen Airbnb data mapped like that before. I had a few hours to spare yesterday so I set about replicating their method for Ireland.…