QGIS and the joy of maps at the FT A fantastic inside look at how the FT design maps reminded me why QGIS might be worth a look if you're into mapping your data.
Mapping Drone near misses in Google Earth* My colleague Andrew Heaton from the Civic Drone Centre [http://civicdronecentre.org/team/andrew-heaton/] set me off on a little adventure with mapping tools when he showed me a spreadsheet of airprox reports involving drones [https://www.airproxboard.org.uk/Topical-issues-and-themes/Drones/]. In my head an airprox report describes what
Mapping street level crime in an area A little while ago I was playing around with the API at data.police.uk looking at a way to pull the data into a google spreadsheet [http://digidickinson.net/2015/06/11/pulling-policing-data-into-google-sheets/] (and some of the issues around the way policing areas are constructed) Yesterday I found myself