Using his Navigatio GIS platform and Claude coding he has created a new data visualisation app which allows you to see how cities have grown over time.
Choose your city from the drop down top left.
Showing posts with label GIS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GIS. Show all posts
Friday, August 28, 2026
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
QuickGIS
Andy Funnell has done a great job of collating a whole range of GIS tools into one place "for busy teachers" - and others.
It's called QuickGIS and is a Wordpress site that he has put together for the benefit of everyone.
Maps are shown in a series of categories.
A quick browse reveals some useful ones for teachers of all key stages. The 'Environment and Resources' tab for example takes you to various viewers and maps to explore ecosystems.
This ecoregions map is new to me, for example.
Thursday, June 11, 2026
World Cup 2026 GIS resources
I've been sharing World Cup stories as we get ready for the tournament that starts later today. There are mixed fortunes for the hosts and those who want to go and pay extortionate amounts to view matches... they're being shown on the telly you know...
Here are some GIS and data-related resources.
Brendan Conway has shared some GIS Maps ahead of the tournament which may be of interest to people.
First up.
The #WorldCup2026 is geographically the most extensive ever:- More participants than ever before (48 countries)
- The distances are vast: 5000km (3000mi) north to south; west to east
- Three international 'regions' for the venues across 4 time zones
How can we use #GIS #filters to show the extent of the tournament?
Here's a webmap with #Bookmarks + #PopUps to step the presentation:
- Stadium locations, images, time zones and links to further details
Use from the front or as follow-up; homework; retrieval practice
Webmap created using #Geo Mapper2D
Check out Geo Mapper by the way...
Secondly...
- How can we compare the track record and development of each country?
- How many flags and anthems do you recognise?
- What about the teams in England and Scotland's groups?
- How can we use #GIS #filters to manage big data?
Here's a webmap with #Bookmarks + #PopUps to step the presentation:
- 2026 FIFA ranking, HDI rank flags and🔊🎵most anthems🎵🔊
- All national FAs shown; 48 qualifiers; desire lines show #FootballMiles
Use from the front or as follow-up; homework; retrieval practice
Check out the webmap made with Geo Mapper.
Andy Funnell meanwhile posted this over on LinkedIn.
The FIFA World Cup will soon be upon us, which means I'm back to loading up the GIS maps from the CIES Football Observatory to fuel geographical debates in the classroom.
Click the tabs....
A fantastic way to explore themes such as migration, globalisation, demographics, culture and identity:
⚽ Demography Maps
Which national team has the tallest players on average?
Which squads are the youngest?
Are there regional patterns in player profiles?
⚽ Migration Atlas
Why do so many Brazilian footballers migrate to Portugal?
Which countries are the biggest exporters of football talent?
What historical, cultural and linguistic links help explain these patterns?
I looked at the diaspora from Iceland... some interesting figures..
Brendan Conway to finish with this post... there will be plenty more World Cup related posts over the next month or so... like it or not...
This is from the International Longevity Centre UK. I'd not heard of this before but will be investigating their resources and a future post will be appearing.
The page from this link is a complete stats-fest, with bubble charts and all sorts of tables on the longevity and age of players, managers etc.
Plenty more to come over the weeks ahead...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
New ESRI GIS support materials
Jason Sawle shared this on World GIS Day.
Part of a forthcoming set of resources for students and teachers to explore the world.
Friday, October 03, 2025
Digital assessment - some trials
This is coming soon...
Katie Hall has shared some of her recent work exploring digital assessment options.
She has been working with Qualifications Wales to look at a possible model for doing this.
Nathan Evans from Qualifications Wales has written a blog post about progress to date.
This includes some videos of the tasks that learners were asked to do.
And then you can have a go yourself at doing the activity here.
Monday, July 14, 2025
National Geographic's MapMaker
Jason Sawle has shared ten teaching tips for National Geographic's MapMaker.
Here's one for example that I used to make a lot more use of than now....
Monday, February 17, 2025
ESRI Visualiser
If you need to show students the world and have a free GIS / Visualisation tool, check out ESRI's Visualiser.
This is a free tool with no login. Maps can be viewed in 2D or as a 3D sphere.
There are some measuring tools, and also some layers that can be added e.g. ocean currents.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
SHIFT podcast with Jack Dangermond of esri
Listen to the SHIFT podcast which features an interview with Jack Dangermond, founder of esri. He is the President of esri.
From deciding where to build a new business, airport or fire station, to understanding the potential impact of decisions regarding conservation or governance, people make billions of maps everyday using GIS.We explore the history and evolution of this tech with one of its pioneers, in the latest instalment of our oral history project.
He is clear that "geography is everything!"
Find out more here.
A few points that Jack makes:
- Between 4 and 5 billion maps are made on esri's platforms every day.
- GIS digitises geography and puts it into a geographical frame.
- Organisations are run by geography.
- Do analytics of the geography behind the maps.
- GIS tools help frame the decision making they do.
- FEMA and other emergency departments use the tools to plan the response to hazards
- Roger Tomlinson invented the term GIS
- Talks about getting his customers together and working out what they could develop as a product
- esri has 680 000 customers... when they started they had single digit numbers of customers
- A third of revenue is spent on advancing products and R&D
- UPS saved hundreds of millions of dollars from rerouting their vehicles
- Helped with EBOLA
- 1.3 trillion maps were created showing the spread of COVID19 around the world
- "Geography is everything"
Thursday, January 09, 2025
Global Influence Index (GII)
Thanks to Bob Lang / Brendan Conway for the tipoff to this GIS resource which explores the GII: the extent to which countries are influenced by, and align themselves with either USA or China.
The Global Influence Index (GII) measures the influence of both the U.S. and China in 191 countries.gii.cesionline.org gt find by Brendan Conway excellrnt for post16 superpowers @jbwgeog.bsky.social
— Bob Lang (@boblanggeog.bsky.social) January 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The GII uses 28 measures of influence across the economic, political, and security spectrums to track the U.S. - China competitive landscape. What is the influence they have in other countries?
Thursday, January 02, 2025
Slavery from Space
The UN member countries have set the target of ending slavery by 2030.
However, no country has a system for actively monitoring slavery, and this lack of data leads to poor interventions and policies.
The Slavery from Space programme at the University of Nottingham aims to address this problem. The programme uses Earth Observation (EO) to identify and track the scars left on the Earth by the industries with high levels of slavery.
This includes fish processing in Bangladesh, brick-making in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, deforestation in Mozambique, cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, agriculture in Greece, and multiple sectors in Uganda.
This includes fish processing in Bangladesh, brick-making in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal, deforestation in Mozambique, cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, agriculture in Greece, and multiple sectors in Uganda.
Monday, November 18, 2024
GIS Day - check out the RGS-IBG resources
GIS Day is this Wednesday 20! Help mark the day by exploring our GIS resources for teachers. 📚
— RGS-IBG Schools (@RGS_IBGschools) November 18, 2024
These educational tools will enable you to bring real-world geography into your classroom and show students the power of GIS. 💻https://t.co/GzjnCSib8l ⬇️#GISday2024
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Living England 2022-3 Habitat Map
The new Living England 2022-23 habitat map is now live! Download freely from https://t.co/rR1gT2IaPl (coming soon on Magic). It’s more reliable & user-friendly than ever - providing essential habitat data for natural capital monitoring across England. pic.twitter.com/5PmDIHjeli
— NE Chief Scientist (@NEChiefSci) November 12, 2024
Visit the link, and see the details in the technical report.
Saturday, June 29, 2024
New Antarctica GIS from BAS
The Antarctic Digital Database is a free new GIS linked to Antarctica.
Data can be downloaded through the data catalogue in Geopackage or Shapefile format.What's that? A new map viewer bringing together all the data of the Antarctic Digital Database? Freely available?!
— British Antarctic Survey 🐧 (@BAS_News) May 18, 2024
Go enjoy yourself zooming into bits of Antarctica, map lovers ⬇️https://t.co/DWwaghwzUh
The BAS ✨MAGIC✨ team looks after this project for @SCAR_Tweets. pic.twitter.com/vVqXQOxdV6
Coastline and contour datasets are also accessible in the ArcGIS Living Atlas.
The datasets included in the ADD are:Coastline, including grounding lines and ice shelf fronts
Rock outcrop
Contours
Lakes
Moraine
Streams
Seamask
ADD data limit at 60°S
All datasets are in WGS84 Antarctic Polar Stereographic projection, EPSG 3031.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
The Coal Authority Maps
The Coal Authority has a GIS site where you can identify the locations of previous activity to mine for coal.
This was a big part of my life growing up in South Yorkshire. My grandfather and other family members were coal miners and we knew there were coal seams running under our village and surrounding areas - I remember a house collapsing from subsidence once. Now you can find these signs of the past on this map from the Coal Authority.
The miners' strike was something else I remember well. Several friends spent a lot of time marching and fund raising. Our minibus was occasionally stopped when carrying out undergraduate fieldwork as the police thought we might be flying pickets.
The village where I lived was only a few miles from the Maltby Colliery, and there was a lot of ill feeling between those who stayed out and those who went back. Orgreave was only about four miles from home too and the TV coverage of the time was all over the local news in the evening. This was a desperate time for many. There has been a number of recent TV dramas and documentaries as it is now coming up to 40 years on from the strike - amazingly.
Monday, July 24, 2023
GI Pedagogy
I previously posted about my regret at the ending of the UK's involvement with the ERASMUS+ programme following our withdrawal from the EU. Whenever I've met and worked with European friends and colleagues since then, they have expressed their sadness and bafflement at that decision. We can only hope that it might be reversed at some point.
The GI Pedagogy project was my 'final' involvement and last week we got the final assessment back from the British Council with a VERY GOOD assessment, which had improved on the original project bid - which is always good to see, and which commented on the quality of the outputs and support for teachers.
If you are thinking of increasing your use of GIS in the classroom please check out our website for the resources that we created as part of the project. The innovative aspect of our work is the use of Rosenshine's Principles to help inform the teaching with GIS.
These include:
- Research reports on best practice when teaching with GIS. I contributed to all of these, but was particularly involved in the creation of the TOOLKIT. I'm very pleased with how that turned out.
- Check out our MOOC - free access, and full of useful videos and other resources
- A StoryMap of outcomes from people who have used our model.
Friday, July 14, 2023
Mapmaker - launched in Beta
MapMaker was launched at the ESRI User Conference earlier in the week.
As part of a great new collaboration with with National Geographic Society we are launching a new, free, mapping solution for schools, MapMaker 3.0 (beta). 2D, 3D, curated content, innovative tools, designed for schools. Give is a try at https://t.co/6IStrdoCcR #geographyteacher pic.twitter.com/Rz1vp8cfDF
— Jason Sawle (@GIS4Schools) July 9, 2023
Back in 2010-12 I travelled the country leading GIS sessions with Jason Sawle, using an ESRI product called Digital Worlds. We visited cities up and down the country at the time. Jason is now Global Schools Manager at ESRI, and was involved in the launch of MapMaker.
The new National Geographic MapMaker has some unique features for teaching. Use the weather simulation tool in 3D to aide understanding and reduce cognitive load for flooding case studies. Try it for yourself at https://t.co/92wRmaZknk#EsriUC2023 #geographyteacher pic.twitter.com/7G0d4zyf5J
— Jason Sawle (@GIS4Schools) July 11, 2023
This might be the tool that you find the most useful from the various ESRI options.
Friday, May 12, 2023
GIS - a new Tutor2U blog series
GIS is a growth area, but one which many teachers are still unsure about.
I worked with Brendan Conway on the GI Pedagogy project, which has now concluded. Our resources are available on the hub.
Brendan has also teamed up with Tutor2U to produce a series of posts about GIS.
The first two are now up. A link to the first is here:
First in a series of blogposts about teaching with GIS, from our in-house expert @mildthing99 who is an advocate of making GIS 'part of furniture' in your classroom #everydayGIS https://t.co/wp2oSkmt7z
— tutor2u Geography (@tutor2uGeog) April 25, 2023
& the second is here:
Good afternoon!
— woollyvix (@woollyvix) May 11, 2023
We have added the latest in a series of blogs about GIS to the website today - written by @mildthing99 (who has an incredible amount of knowledge with GIS!)... @tutor2uGeog @tutor2u #geographyteacher https://t.co/3nDvs74ofA
Thursday, March 02, 2023
GI Pedagogy MOOC - check it out.
We are now coming to the final stage of the GI Pedagogy project.
The target audience is wide and you may be part of it...
The project’s outputs and events are aimed specifically at supporting educators (Horizontal Priority: Supporting Educators).This training will help teachers embed GIS within their curriculum.
It will support them to feel confident in teaching GIS as a fundamental tool for modern geography, not as a superficial add-on to existing methods.
The training takes the form of a MOOC: an online course basically, with resources, videos and presentations.
Feel free to check it out.
Also feel free to follow us on Twitter @GIPedagogy.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
GIS Day Livestream
From the RGS-IBG this afternoon....
This GIS Day join us for a live webinar as we explore the history of the climate crisis, predictions about where we are going, and some of the tools helping to mitigate against the most catastrophic outcomes.
This webinar is aimed at students undertaking NEA fieldwork interested in climate change topics, and teachers looking to enrich their climate change teaching with Met Office data and game-changing GIS technology.
Thursday, October 20, 2022
GI Pedagogy - come and hear about it
Come along to an ERASMUS+ event at my school: King's Ely, funded by the British Council.
This is a multiplier event for the GI Pedagogy project.
The GI Pedagogy project has involved exploring the pedagogy that might be applied when using GIS to support teaching, using Rosenshines Principles and a stepped model that we have developed, along with a literature review.
We have put together an online course which we'd also like to introduce you to during the afternoon session.
We'll give you a light lunch and refreshments.
If you can't make it in person, but would like to join online, let me know and we'll see what can be organised for you. Eventbrite doesn't seem to want me to add a hybrid event.
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