Category: Web mapping

  • CartoDB and track days

    Here’s a very quick and dirty attempt at taking some data logged (on an iPhone) at a track day I did a while back and using CartoDB’s excellent web mapping tools to create an interactive visualisation of the data. Hover over the points to view speed, lateral g (cornering) and lineal g (acceleration/braking). Click, drag […]

  • UK snow map, according to Twitter

    Here’s the snow map mentioned in my last post. The map shows geotagged, snow-related tweets collected over the weekend of 11th-14th January, normalised by the number of tweets per county taken in a separate random sample. As usual, you can click, zoom and pan around the map in the usual way

  • Twitter hotspots

    As part of the background learning and research I’ve been doing for work, I’ve been looking into various forms of spatially referenced data and ways of presenting it over the web. In particular, I’ve been developing a tool in Java that will collect geotagged tweets from Twitter over a period of time, filtered by things […]

  • London to Cambridge bike ride. Twice.

    Did a big old bike ride last week. Cambridge to London via some nice sweeping country lanes and then back to Cambridge again along the official London to Cambridge route. Apart from a few short rides for an hour or two here and there, it was the first ‘proper’ ride I’ve done on a road […]