#UKSnowDepth

Following on from the #uksnow map started last year, Tom Barrett has set up a UK Snow Depth map... Measure the depth of your snow, and add it to the map:


View #UKSnowDepth in a larger map

West Yorkshire in Ten Squares

I was interested to read an article in the Yorkshire Post this morning about Alan Burnett, a blogger (and formerly lecturer, writer and bus conductor), who grew up in Yorkshire and is now three weeks into a project in which he is exploring, photographing and writing about ten randomly selected grid squares in a West Yorkshire road atlas.

I'm possibly a little bit biased, having grown up in West Yorkshire myself, but Alan's blogposts of the project so far - Little Germany in Bradford, Ilkley Moor, and Woodlesford (of which I had never heard) make very interesting reading, and I'm looking forward to seeing where he goes next...

West Yorkshire in Ten Squares

And as I was writing that, the fourth instalment's been added... Grid square 4 was Calverley, just down the road from my parents' house, and where one of my best friends from school used to live.

I hope you'd be able to do better than this...

I have made a point of avoiding Big Brother, but a fellow geography teacher has just pointed this out... (Click on the A Wonder of the World link)... And if you can't do better, get the globe or the atlas out and spend the last week of your holidays practising, if only so that you don't show yourself up on a reality TV show!!

Is it raining?

Miserable weather here all weekend, and elsewhere in the UK too, according to Twitter. So, as a little experiments/investigation, I set up a wiki map which can be edited by anyone - add a marker with details of what the weather is like where you are...



Oh, and if you haven't already seen it, check out the brilliant Is it going to rain? which I discovered a while back but had forgotten about until it appeared in the latest GA Magazine...

Tube Map...

For some strange reason, I still have a fascination with the Tube and the Tube map, so love this video from Digital Urban showing the lines laid out according to their geographical locations, rather than the traditional Tube map layout...


London Tube Map Geography:Visualisation Draft from digitalurban on Vimeo.

Brainland

Thanks to Noel Jenkins for pointing out this fantastic map of Brainland! Click on the picture to find out more...

Inverted World... And other "Strange Maps"!

This "inverse" map of the world - imagining what it would be like if all the world's water was land, and vice versa - is one of the "strange maps" on the Strange Maps blog that Alan Parkinson has just blogged about... Lots of other interesting bits and pieces on there as well!

World Monuments Watch

Do you know where this is??
It is one of the 100 Most Endangered Sites, according to the World Monuments Watch, which aims to protect "cultural heritage" around the world. Their website has an excellent interactive map, allowing you to look at the sites, to find out more about them and to look at the threats they face... Click on the picture to visit the site.

Thanks to GeoDave for the tip-off!

Grapheety!

Another excellent site pointed out by a "virtual colleague"...

Grapheety is a site which allows you to add tags with photos, stories, interesting info, etc. about a particular place...

And as the only place tagged in our area is Nottingham Forest Football Club, it's high time we got all signed up and started putting some interesting stuff on there!!

Click on the picture to link to the site... Sign up, and get some interesting East Midlands stuff posted!

Oh no!!

Yet another excellent distraction from working/cleaning...

Flickrvision is a world map that updates every second to show you the latest photos that have been added to Flickr, and where in the world they were taken! Hours of fun...

Music Mapping....

Excellent music site with what could be described as quite a wide variety of tunes! And maps into the bargain! Mr H-Team is addicted already!

www.musicovery.com

Want to know what the news is around the world?

Well, (apart from reading Geogtastic, obviously!) pay a visit to Newseum where there is an interactive map, allowing you to look at the front pages of 546 different newspapers around the world.


Let us know if you spot any geogtastic stories!

Another reason why Geography's great... (as if you needed any more!)

...if you know roughly where someone lives, but have lost their address, you can draw a sketch map on the envelope of your Christmas card to them...

That's what Peter O'Leary's former colleague did - and the Royal Mail managed to deliver the card in 9 days! Click on the picture for the BBC story.

Apparently, other people have sent mail just with an OS grid reference, and there is even a book by a woman who sent 130 letters with disguised addresses and puzzles for the postman on the envelopes... Of 130 letters, 120 of them reached their destinations!

The Royal Mail have a special warehouse for "undeliverable" mail, and 300 staff "leave no stone unturned" in their quest to get it to where it should be!

Trolley-spotting in Nottingham!

This morning I wrote about MyWalks - a project to get people engaging with their environment... Someone who's already doing that, by the looks of things, is Adele Prince - the London-based artist (and closet geographer, I think!) behind Trolley Spotting (thanks to Ollie Bray for highlighting this site).

Armed with a GPS and camera, Adele went trolley-spotting in Nottingham, London and Portsmouth, and has mapped the locations of the abandoned trolleys she spotted, as well as other interesting discarded objects.

What else could be mapped in this way? How about starting your own equivalent of the trolley-spotting project?!