Santa Claus Travel Time Map - Europe

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‘Memorable’ year (for mapping too) To quote many a commercial from 2020, this year has been “different” and “unprecedented” for all of us. With the Covid-19 pandemic changing our lives, it would be remiss to not mention the impact it has had on us and thank the tireless work key workers have done to protect and take care of us. Data and mapping has come into its own during this time, helping to track the spread of the pandemic, and where possible, to help plan and protect us. Data and mapping has also been vital to perhaps the other two major news headlines – theRead More →

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This is a follow on from a previous post, where I released my latest incarnation of a music map and discussed other people’s fine work. This post is going to be slightly different from my normal posts, being a FAQ style about the music map for those who are interested to know more. So without further ado… What is the Music Map? The originally named, Music Map, is an interactive map regarding music artists and the geography of music artists. A brief description of this project is to map where music artists, bands or solo artists have ‘originated’, forming a geographical database which can beRead More →

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Music to my geographical ears! I’m coming up to a four year anniversary. When I started it, I didn’t think it would take up so many evenings. I didn’t think I’d learn so much. I didn’t think the journey would still be ongoing. I am, of course, talking about my ‘Music Map’.  For those who have followed or explored my site, may have noticed my interactive map regarding music artists and the geography of music artists. A brief description of this project is to map where music artists, bands or solo artists have ‘originated’, forming a geographical database which can be used to display andRead More →

Capitals and Centres Map

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This part three of series on capital cities, exploring influences on their location and history. There will be maps. For the first part click here and for the second part click here. Historical Capital Whilst moves to new capitals and new geography is a strong pattern here, history plays its part too. The most recent country to change its capital is Burundi in 2018, when it moved its capital from the more populous Bujumbura, to the more central location Gitega, the seat of the kingdom of Burundi until its abolition in 1966. Similarly, when Italy became a unified country, the weight of history played itsRead More →

Map of USA for Washington DC, 1791,A New Capital for a New Nation

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This part two of series on capital cities, exploring influences on their location and history.  There will be maps. For the first part click here.  Continuing to break new ground Continuing a post independence from Britain theme, is the US planned capital of Washington D.C., designated by its namesake George and officially made the capital of the young United States in 1800. Its strategic position on the Potomac river in a trans-state location between Virginia and Maryland reflected, not just a central location in the then 13 newly independent colonies; but a compromise between Southern and Northern colonies, i.e. slave holding and free states. TheRead More →

Eurovision points from Finland

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And now the points from… I wasn’t even planning on another post about the Eurovision Song Contest and the voting geography of this crazy contest. However, messing around on data and geospatial visualisation platforms, and the urge became too strong. So twelve months on here I am again, examining the predictability of voting patterns. The Balkans bloc, the Scandinavian bloc, the former Soviet bloc – you know the drill, so I’ll spare going through the context again – I’ve explored this previously in 2018 and 2017.  Data viz for the Euroviz What’s new for this year are interactive data visualisations where you can explore a country’sRead More →

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February 2019 – Quiz Time! I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a very busy start to the year, so thought I’d take a moment to slow down with another geography quiz. Turns out that both out of this world and on it, it’s been also been a busy month in geographical news. How much have you been paying attention to it? Find out with this short quiz below.   Happy Mapping, David  Read More →

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Unique Sporting Landscape There was a sporting story a few weeks ago about some Patriotic football team from New England winning a record number of ‘Bowls’ last week and somehow male sheep and Maroon 5 were involved. I’m learning a lot about American culture, even falling in with love in many respects, but it’s going to take some time for this blogger to fully understand American football. American culture is a unique, great and fascinating one – a product of its pioneering, multicultural, diverse history and background of starting a country anew. I could easily do an article about the food culture and diversity ofRead More →

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January 2019 – Quiz Time! Firstly, a very belated happy new year! It’s still January as I write this, so think I can just about get away with it. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a very busy start to the year, so thought I’d take a moment to slow down with this geography quiz. Turns out that both out of this world and on it, it’s been also been a busy month in geographical news. How much have you been paying attention to it? Find out with this short quiz below.   Happy Mapping, David  Read More →