What’s the story like? 1/2012
It’s a new year, its a new dawn and all that stuff and i need a job! Hello 2012, may you be a good one! Well kicked off the year with my first ever web application competition entry for the #Apps4Fingal competition. You may have see my entry, it’s UrbanRural and i’m going to give...
Happy New Year! 2011 The year of the Chinese, our massive population, continuing trends and more
As 2011 draws to a close I thought we would look back on this bumper year for the blog and pick out the top 10 most viewed posts of 2011 as per the analytics. But first I would like to thank everyone who has commented or helped me out during the year, it is much...
Belated Happy Christmas and have a great St. Stephen’s Day
Spare a thought, we can get the bus to the shop . Take it easy and C’mon Leinster!
![[OPEN DATA] NTA NaPTAN Mapped](http://dt106ers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Screen-shot-2011-12-14-at-16.54.07-290x290.png "[OPEN DATA] NTA NaPTAN Mapped")
[OPEN DATA] NTA NaPTAN Mapped
A quick post today showing just the sort of data that has been made available through the DubLinked project. I attended the recent DubLinked workshop in IBM themed around planning data. It was great fun had some serious chats with @josephcorr and @Fingal_Data_Hub on the upcoming #Apps4Fingal competition, and no I have not come up with a proper...
![[UPDATE] Dublin Transport Map v1.5](http://dt106ers.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/RapidTransportMap10122011-290x290.png "[UPDATE] Dublin Transport Map v1.5")
[UPDATE] Dublin Transport Map v1.5
First I would like to say thanks a million to all those who provided feedback on my first version of the Dublin transport map, you all know who you are, thank you! Before I show you the revised map I would like to explain my design process a bit better so as to clear up some...
Dublin Rapid Transit Map – Feedback please!
Ok anyone who has met me or listened to me talk about transport will know I’m a bit of nut for mass public transport and how its portrayed to the public. Not sure if you remember but last year a Aris Venetikidis completed a future fantasy (with a lot of fact) complete transport map for Dublin as...
News Roundup – Technology, Technology and DATA
We start this week wit the announcement of a new website ram packed with old Central Statistics Office data from the last census but shows a lot of promise! Decision Map DecisionMap.ie - Is new online resource which maps census data on a number of levels including the electoral distrcts and provides one of those cool percentage box type things...
Westmeath CoCo gives the go ahead for Chinese Trade Centre
You may remember this time last year I wrote a post on the future plans that were afoot for a site close to the town of Athlone – Must Read: Athlone to be developed by the Chinese. Well today I was listening to RTE’s Drivetime while making the dinner, they had a guy on from Athlone...
Grangegorman SDZ Oral Hearing – The last hurdle?
So as the end of the planning procedure element of the redevelopment of St Brendans Hospital or Grangegorman as we have all come to know draws to a close, what do we think of it? Will it be built? Should it be built in absence of the LUAS line which is supposed to serve it directly but...
So there’s 7+ Billion People in the World!
According to the UN today, we symbolically reached the 7 Billion person mark. It just boggle the mind, that in just 11 short years since 2000 that another billion people have been added to the worlds population. So why not tell your story on 7 Billion Actions? In 1900 some 10% of people lived in cities, by...
Open Data – Ever wondered where all the applications are?
I’m quiet a big fan of all the nice open data initiatives that are ongoing throughout our country and i’m really impressed with the much larger effort in the uk. When the Fingal Open Data Hub appeared on the map i thought sweet, i can go do something with their data but I really wasn’t sure at...
Thursday, 6th: Young Planners Network Launch
This Thursday the Irish Planning Institute Young Planners Network is launching in the pretty swanky surrounds of the National Conference Center Dublin, to register and interest you must RSVP ypn@ipi.ie Also there might even be some beers afterwards….! Hopefully see you there! As always! Comments are welcome, you can follow me on the tweet machine @Rusty1052. Only want...
