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Top 10 Most Expensive Rail Routes by Price per km

Global Rail Fares or Unfair?

2019-08-21
By: TheMole19
On: August 21, 2019
In: gis, maps, My Maps, News
Tagged: africa, australia, austria, botswana, brazil, canada, china, data, data visualisation, data visualization, europe, France, geography, geospatial, germany, gis, india, Italy, Japan, netherlands, norway, OriginalContent, poland, politics, rail, railway, railways, russia, south africa, spain, sweden, train, transport, travel, UK, usa, world
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Rail pricing – a global comparison There are some things in life you can be sure of – death, taxes and UK rail fares going up every year. By coincidence, I was just finishing up a quick bit of research on rail journey prices and cost over distance, when news of the latest price hike broke. In this article, the claim that the UK has the highest rail fares in Europe is investigated. It is something I’ve often thought about, and how it compares globally, but is this true? The take from the ‘Reality Check’, is that the UK is the most expensive bought onRead More →

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Eurovision points from Finland

Eurovision 2019: Making your points

2019-05-18
By: TheMole19
On: May 18, 2019
In: gis, maps, My Maps, News
Tagged: culture, cyprus, data, data visualisation, europe, geography, geospatial, gis, greece, israel, map, mapping, maps, netherlands, OriginalContent, politics, russia, sweden, UK
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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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Map of The MonthJuly2018

Map of The Month – July 2018 – You Decide!

2018-07-28
By: TheMole19
On: July 28, 2018
In: Map of the Month, maps, News
Tagged: amsterdam, dogs, geospatial, gis, map, mapbox, maps, motm, netherlands, transport, UK, urban, vote
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Vote for your Favourite Map! In the first of a new series comes the (hopefully to become) prestigious Map of the Month award, where we vote on the best examples of  inspiring cartography, data visualisation and geographical science over the last month. After spending the past month trawling through the internet, I’ve whittled it down to 5 nominees for you to vote for. With geographical pride at stake, the power is with you! Let’s look at the candidates… Metro/Tram Map Amsterdam – Eric Hammink   Amsterdam is one of my favourite cities and has recently undergone updates to it’s Metro and Tram infrastructure. A first-classRead More →

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Santa Claus Story Web Map

Where is Santa Claus From?

2017-12-22
By: TheMole19
On: December 22, 2017
In: gis, My Maps
Tagged: christmas, culture, geography, gis, history, map, mapping, netherlands, OriginalContent, santa claus, UK, usa
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Santa Claus coming to town…via maps With Christmas coming soon and Santa preparing for his annual global delivery service of presents, I thought it would be an opportune time to investigate the origin of Santa Claus, using a story map created in Mapbox. To get the fullscreen version of the embedded map below click here, and hope you enjoy!   Finally and most importantly, Happy Christmas and have a Happy (mappy) New Year! Happy Mapping, DavidRead More →

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Polder and Wiser – The Netherlands

2017-03-18
By: TheMole19
On: March 18, 2017
In: gis, maps, My Maps, Uncategorized
Tagged: dtm, dutch, engineering, flood, flooding, geography, geospatial, gis, mapping, maps, nederlands, netherlands, OriginalContent, raster, water, zonalstats
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I’m a self confessed Dutchophile. There’s something about the colour ‘Oranje’, the unique sound of the language (which I’m ‘trying’ to learn), the windmills, clogs, tulips, hagelslag, stroopwafels, Edam cheese and (until recently challenged) liberal attitudes. I feel there is much to admire about the resourcefulness of the people of the Netherlands, once a economic powerhouse in the 1600s, where making the most of limited land has been vital. This was particularly embodied by the philosophy of ‘Totaal’, where the ability of space to have multiple uses influenced (particularly architectural) philosophies within the general liberal Dutch culture of the 20th Century. Famously, this was reflectedRead More →

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