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...
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...
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...
Park(ing) Day Dublin
Dublin’s first Park(ing) Day is happening this Friday 16th September from 10am to 4pm at various locations around the city. Park(ing) Day transforms on-street car parking spaces into public open spaces for one day. Car parking spaces around the city – from Arbour Hill to Portobello and right through the city centre – will be converted...
Census 2011 by the county and Fusion Tables, mapping the data.
Well the preliminary Census 2011 data has been out over a week not and thankfully i have finally figured out how to make a map using googles new fusion tables service. My inspiration came from the Guardians Data Blog. All the materials required a freely available. The CSO provide some shapefiles of the areas which...
Bag’o Links “Independence Day”, Chinese ghost estates and more…
Well folks since it will be independence day by the time I publish this post Happy America day folks and for those in Canada belated Canada Day! That crap aside down to business, been some great links this week! Chinese ghost estates (cough) CITIES! Interesting piece by those plucky Aussies on dateline down under – Watch Chinas...
Bag’o Links 23/06/11
Right so first post in quite a while! So to ease myself back into the grand scheme of things I shall just be dropping a few links. To kick it off the Strong Towns Blog have been running a series of posts on suburbanization in the US: The Growth Ponzi Scheme Day 1: The Mechanisms of Growth –...
