Thematic maps of local government areas

I have a cunning plan, to write a web application that automatically generates a Google map showing thematic data from an ESRI shape file. In LSORA I used MapInfo’s MapXtreme for Java to render raster maps for each request, but found that it can often take up to 20 seconds to render a complicated thematic […]

Belvoir Challenge run

This was a hard run, a 15.4 mile muddy slog over water logged ground. On the bright side there were cake stalls along the route. I tried hard to munch the sponge cake at mile 9 but found it impossible to run, chew, breath hard and eat the cake. Besides, it […]

Colwick Park Cross Country

Here is a 3D map of the Cross Country at Colwick Park this morning. The red line is the track from my GPS, being under a canopy of trees for much of the time the track is inaccurate.

This was only the second of these races that I’ve run but I love the atmosphere, […]