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Map of UK Scenicness… and Pubs

Posted on 2009-07-01 by Ollie

Here’s a little something I knocked up, based on the MySociety scenic score data release last week, as well as OpenStreetMap’s data for the UK – including particularly its pubs. Basically, the vote point data was converted to a surface, … Continue reading →

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Spherical Mercator Maps in OpenLayers 2.8

Posted on 2009-06-25 by Ollie

Following on from my previous post, it is indeed much easier to put Spherical Mercator “Google-style” maps into OpenLayers, following the 2.8 release this week. Spherical Mercator is a pseudo-spatial reference system (SRS) that takes some liberties with strict geographic … Continue reading →

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