#Ordnancesurvey

As a lot of you know I'm a keen advocate of liveable neighbourhoods and an important component of this is how walkable your local amenities are e.g. your supermarket. Because,
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Short map thread, inspired @ScienceAndMaps earlier this week. Many people are familiar with @OrdnanceSurvey grid references (e.g. summit of Ben Nevis is NN 166 712) - those two letters you
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Decided to take the bike out for my own little #heritageopenday tour around #Southampton this morning. Visiting some of the urban archaeology you can still see around the city. Why
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A short #Thread about markings on historical buildings.With Halloween fast approaching my inbox begins to fill up with people sending me pictures of strange markings - wanting to know whether
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Bank Holiday THREAD - part 2After Windermere's sunshine and swallows over Claife Heights, I was feeling short of what Alfred Wainwright called "featureless desolation, and solitude, and silence"...Welcome to Wasdale,
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Would it be useful to have "a Google Maps of the global energy system"?It's really odd that, on the one hand, you can find the nearest cafe for any location
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"I cannot promise to teach you all geology, I can only fire your imaginations" (Adam: on learning)"nasty forward minxes" (also, Adam. On women)Back to the Howgills... Attitudes and time. A
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The #GeospatialCommission has published a list of 300 or so datasets it says are used during the housing and planning process, and highlights in particular a list of 50, "49
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Two years ago I did this thing where I painted children's book covers on rocks, and hid them in my local library. I'm going to paint some grown up books
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And welcome! We are now under way with Shaun Evans (@YstadauCymru) and Scott Lloyd of @RCAHMWales who'll be introducing the @ahrcpress-funded project 'Deep Mapping Estate Archives' [cont.]https://twitter.com/YstadauCymru/status/
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Couldn't resist going for a walk around ... Bedlam's Bottom, which sounds like a ribald euphemism. Keeping up the puerile humour, it's not far from Raspberry Hill and Ladies Hole
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