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After a bit of a new year’s hiatus today we resume our interview / country profile series by profiling some of the great work going on in Lesotho, known as the #MapLesotho project.
As #MapLesotho is not one single person or group, the answers below are from a selection of people...
Great interview about #MapLesotho and the work towards a full OpenStreetMap basemap for Lesotho :)
[Mapped] Coca Cola Bike (DublinBikes) Scheme expansion
Today I saw in the news that the DublinBikes Scheme has been rebranded the Coca-Cola Zero Bike for it's expansion outside the capital to Cork, Galway and Limerick. As part of a pdf they provided details of the streets the stations will be on. So for your viewing pleasure I mapped these.
Cork City
Galway City
Limerick City
I have used an automatic geocoder to transform the street names to points, which isn't actually that accurate in Ireland. So maybe you know the street it is really meant to be on. If so edit these maps! Each of these files are saved in GeoJSON format on gist.github.com. If you can place the markers more accurately please do so by editing the gists.
#IRLTransport The beginnings of a combined bus and rail map for the island of Ireland. Rail Lines in Blue and Express Buses in Magenta. Anyone know who are the private operators running regional services similar to Bus Eireann?
What about the wind turbines in UK compared to the Natura2000 network?
Having discovered that you can get shapefiles from National Grid the TSO for England and Wales. So I hatched the idea of plotting the transmission lines, the wind turbines and the natura2000 sites on the same map for Ireland and the UK.
Click on the image for larger map
At first glance it would appear that in the UK wind turbines are not sited within Natura2000 sites unlike in Ireland. There are exceptions to this and these can be seen in the coastal areas where offshore wind farms have been developed such as those with the Outer Thames Estuary England's South-East coast.
In case you're wondering there are 4735 individual wind turbines shown on the map above.
I plan to build a small data explorer on top of CartoDB that will allow you to explore this data in more detail. This will build upon the work from my last few posts. In case you missed them checkout
How many Natura 2000 sites are within 5-10km of Wind Turbines in Ireland?
Ireland’s Natura2000 sites v’s wind turbines…
Data Sources: National Grid, EirGrid and OpenStreetMap.
Unofficial Map(s): Atlas of Italian Rail Transit by Andrea Spinosa
Occasionally, I get in a bit of a rut with Transit Maps – I feel like I’ve seen everything there is to see, or that I’m just treading water – and then something like this comes along that just blows me away.
This poster, designed by Andrea Spinosa of the CityRailways blog (in Italian), provides an incredible look at rail mass transit in Italy, and it’s simply superb.
The centre of the poster gives a country-wide overview, showing where the different urban networks are and the distribution of transit modes – Metro, commuter rail, regional rail, trams and even funiculars (which seem to be surprisingly popular in Italy!).
The real highlight for me, however, are the 15 maps around the edge of the poster that show the transit systems of different cities/regions around Italy. I’ve included images of four of these maps above. Not unlike Jug Cerovic’s INAT maps (April 2014), the new maps redraw these systems using one consistent style for everything, and it looks good. Pretty much all of them look better than their corresponding official map, especially Naples. The typeface used looks like our old friend, Neutraface. I particularly like all the custom icons for points of interest, including ones for Mt. Vesuvius and Mt. Etna, each drawn with the appropriate profile for each volcano.
There’s a lot to take in here, and I definitely recommend that you head on over to the CityRailways site and check the poster PDF out in full. Each of the city maps is also available as a separate, pocket-sized PDF that you can download and print out, or just put on your mobile device and use it that way. There are lots of other great maps to be found on the site as well.
Our rating: Brilliant, comprehensive and beautiful. I’d put this poster on my wall! Five stars!
Source: CityRailways site
Now this is very cool!
How many Natura 2000 sites are within 5-10km of Wind Turbines in Ireland?
To follow on from my last post on the Natura 2000 Sites vs Wind Turbines I have created two more visualisations which show the extent of the Natura 2000 network in Ireland within 5km and 10km of a wind turbine.
Some background, there are 587 Natura 2000 sites in Ireland, ranging from Special Protection areas to Special Areas of Conservation. You can find out more about why these sites are designated over on the National Parks and Wildlife Services' website.
Within 5KM of a Natura 2000 site
There are some 115 sites in the network within 5KM of a wind turbine. So that means that almost 20% (19.5%) of the network is within 5KM of a turbine. Is that good planning I don't know, what do you think?
Within 10KM of a Natura 2000 site
Now the burning question how many more sites are located within 10KM of a Natura 2000 site, the arbitrary distance most appropriate assessments apply. In this case 228 sites are within 10KM of a wind turbine. That means that almost 40% (38%) of sites lie within 10KM.
Ok to caveat this, there may be many more sites located within the proximity of wind turbines, as the data from open street map may not include all of the turbines in the country.
So I ask does this constitute good planning?
Queries used to make these visualisations
To view this properly you should vist the gist on Github - rustyb / IE windfarms Bufferes.md
Data Sources
Natura 2000 network for Ireland extracted from EU Dataset- http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/natura-4#tab-gis-data
Wind Turbine Locations from OpenStreetMap - extracted using the overpass api. Thanks @ManAboutCouch
If you have questions on how to make this map ask away!
Ireland's Natura2000 sites v's wind turbines...
The last few weeks i've been messing around with mapping things on CartoDB and i've finally done something that might be useful. You can use the map below to get an idea where Ireland's wind turbines are concentrated in relation to Natura2000 sites.
It is these Natura 2000 sites which are afforded the highest protection of any designated site in Europe. The network is mainly made up of sites which are designated under the Birds and Habitats Directives of the European Union.
You will be able to see that the majority of sites in Ireland are along river systems, covering bogs or else in the west of the country.
There the various types of environmental assessment made of wind farm developments prior to receiving consent, the assessment of the projects impacts on any Natura 2000 site is dealt with through appropriate assessment. What this means is that we are looking to assess whether the wind farm will have any permanent long lasting impacts on the qualifying features of the Natura 2000 site. One key factor of determining this is simply knowing whether the development is located on a site or not.
Planning lecture over. Take a look at the map!
Data
Natura 2000 network for Ireland extracted from EU Dataset - http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/natura-4#tab-gis-data
Wind Turbine Locations from OpenStreetMap - extracted using the overpass api. Thanks @ManAboutCouch
If you have questions on how to make this map ask away!
My moves since moving to Germany
So I've been using this app Moves on my phone since last year, I've finally gotten around to exporting the data and making a map. Following a very nice guide from Garrett Miller at mapbox. 10 minutes work, most of which is uploading onto my mapbox account and boom we have a map below of my movements since moving to Germany.
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Blueis cycling, PINK is transport, Green is walking --- View full screen
They mostly centre around Muenster but they did extend to Cologne last weekend. Lot's of train journeys!
House for a Photographer Hyde + Hyde Architects
One day I wish to have access to a house like this. I don’t want to own it necessarily, just be able to go there and visit regularly. A cottage of sorts perhaps? It’s too beautiful for me to handle on a day to day basis…
Official Map: Île-de-France Regional Transit Map
Brought to my attention by readers Tony and Guillaume is this striking new regional transit map for the Île-de-France region that surrounds Paris.
It shows not only the Paris Métro (lines 1 through 14), but also the tramways (Lines T1 through T7), RER lines (lines A through E) and the Transilien commuter rail network (lines H, J, K, L, N, P, R and U). In addition to all this, it also manages to show a wide array of bus routes and indicate travel zones! That it can do all this while still looking quite lovely is definitely an achievement.
Issued by the Syndicat des Transports d’Ile de France (STIF) and designed by LatitudeCartagene, the map is starting to pop up at stations across Paris, replacing an older, more geographically-based map.
It’s interesting to note that while the map shows the entire Métro, it isn’t based on the official map of that network and has instead been drawn from scratch — a wise choice. It also uses Frutiger as the main typeface, rather than the RATP’s bespoke Parisine font. However, it does share the Métro map’s slightly muted pastel colour palette, which means that the few really bright colours like the blazing red of the RER “A” line really jump out.
The map uses an interesting mix of angles to allow all the routes to meet up with each other, as well as some lovely sweeping curves, especially the RER “C” line along the banks of the Seine. In general, the RER and Transilien lines have more flowing curves than the Métro, which works well to visually separate them. The bus routes are shown as straight lines with very tight curves when they change direction.
About the only fault with this map is the lack of a legend: the distinction between the RER lines (route letter in a circle) and Transilien lines (route letter in a square) isn’t immediately apparent, and I’m still not entirely sure why some bus routes are orange and others are blue (orange routes mainly serve central Paris, while blue routes seem to serve the outer areas or be express routes).
Our rating: Basically, I love this: a huge, complex network of interconnecting routes and transit modes simplified and rendered in a stylish, understandable way. Hopefully, it’s future-proofed to cope with the upcoming expansion of Métro and RER services. Four-and-a-half stars!
(Source: Official STIF vianavigo site — PDF download)
This map of Africa was made in 1864 by American cartographer A. J. Johnson. The mid-1800s were golden years for European exploration of inland Africa; the continent’s interior is far more detailed on this map than on others made just 10 years earlier.
A less-than-scientific insect field guide by Fuchsia MacAree. Pair with the science of what insects reveal about our own humanity.
Ever wonder what it looks like to make a transport map? Well now you can see a days work in roughly 37 seconds. If only it was that quick to label stops in realtime!
Making part of the Dublin Transport Map - Timelapse.
These beautiful maps are by Abigail Daker. You can find more of her work here.
Hank bought a bus.
I WANT THIS !!
need so hard
I will make this mine.
Tip: Map Design with Adobe Illustrator.
Map design involves a great deal of technique and precision. Though nowadays programs largely automate this century-old craft, keeping a well-organized workspace will increase your efficiency. Jump past the break to see the three tricks you can use to streamline your workflow.
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Seriously wish I had copped onto using the symbols for the interchanges when I started making the map. Would be super easy to update it!
Dublin Transport Map for €1 enter MAP100 - Strike Suspended Full Service tomorrow
So there you have it the Strike has been suspended and to celebrate you can pick up a Dublin Frequent Transport Map for just €1 for the rest of the week.
Enter the Coupon Code on Checkout MAP100 to purchase your map for €1
Buy your Transport Map now for just €1
Happy Commuting in the morning folks!
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