So, last weekend Emmet and I set of with a Garmin GPS device and mapped Loe Pool. Part of our journey can be viewed, the rest of the story needs to be told in other ways. For instance, difficulties encountered, investigations made, concepts developed, decisions arrived at, need to be explained with words and some […]

This Saturday Emmet and I meet to walk the lake. We will walk it with a GPS device so we can leave a trail, and we will mark points of interest.

We then plan to read out the data, visualise the information we have collected and look at what we’re going to do with it. This […]

As Emmet and I are walking Loe Pool this week, I thought it was time to revisit and share notes I have about the place. The following words are taken from a meeting with Sarah Myles of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust, which took place some time ago, when I first started research for this project.
After […]

It’s important to question whether one should use green for the identity of an environmental based project. In the last project I was involved in, I asked green mapmakers to think of “great ocean lakes and a profusion of purple Japanese flowers” when agreeing to a colour palette. This was because some green mapmakers were […]

mind maps

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Theirwork will combine mind based maps and land based maps.

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So, I am starting to play around with seethrough.
This seethrough book is a mind map.

I am thinking about the different layers of a map. How many there can be. What kind of information might be on each layer. How many layers might only contain point data. And I am very roughly imagining the different ways that point data can be visualised. And as I imagine different points and different […]

I just became the 50th person to sign a PledgeBank pledge and help it achieve it’s target quota:
I will sign the manifesto for Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data when complete and give £10 toward helping projects creating open geospatial data but only if 50 other people will too.
You can still add your name to […]

The following images are in response to an instant chat about http://theirwork.org/map/ We imagined the function of this map. “We can use the function to zoom into different layers. These layers are about spatial data still, but they perhaps won’t always be like an aerial map.” Emmet suggested, “We might use the slider idea to […]