In geography a nodal point is the point at which different transport links come together. Nodal points are sometimes referred to as route centres. Nodal Point Examples Examples of nodal points include roads arriving together, a confluence of rivers or a rail junction. Nodal points are often associated with settlement sites, such as a town,… Read More »
In this blog post I’ll show you how to extract data from maps using QGIS to georeference a map image and identify data points. The steps are: Start with a map image containing data you want to capture, such as marked locations Add a base map to QGIS that you will load the map image… Read More »
I was asked recently about adding multiple custom lines and markers to a Folium map. Folium can be a bit funny about the order in which things are applied so below gives an example of how you can later lines and markers. To make it easier to see which elements are which in the final… Read More »
Transport is one area where the wide availability of data has made a big difference in recent years. Google mapsis probably the most obvious example, but there are also some other cool projects out there. Here I’ve picked out some cool map and visualisation projects that use live transport data to visualise transport systems around… Read More »
The UK has around 160 universities, located around the country. Here is a map of UK University Locations, made using Folium. Download the UK university locations data [csv] Access the list of UK universities Python Code For UK University Locations How to convert postcodes to coordinates