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Tim Rodaway

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Geospatial Developer @N_landCouncil Trombonist | @SSAGO_UK | @SAGGA_UK | @NorthlandScouts. All views my own.

 Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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Joined October 2012
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Our calculations have discovered the three 'norths' will combine for the first time in history this week🧭 True north, magnetic north and grid north will combine at a single point - starting at Langton Matravers, a village just west of Swanage #3Norths
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I just want to point out that this is not the fault of staff working furiously to control the longest queue in England. This is happening entirely because What3Words is error-prone by design. Anyone can and will make these mistakes when communicating w3w addresses verbally
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Love maps? Looking for an excuse to spend hours exploring them? 😉 Sign up now to help transcribe all of the text on Ordnance Survey 25-inch to the mile maps of Edinburgh. Project launching 17:00 on 17th May 2022. forms.office.com/Pages/Respo…
screenshot of software for transcribing placenames on historic Ordnance Survey map of Edinburgh

ALT screenshot of software for transcribing placenames on historic Ordnance Survey map of Edinburgh

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Addy Pope@GIS4HE7 Apr 2022
A very good point from ⁦@geogale⁩ #GISRUK2022
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⁦@GeospatialNCL⁩ ⁦@GeospatialCDT⁩ ⁦@NCL_Geography⁩ takeover of Liverpool #gisruk2022 #pizzatime
Image from Phil James 🚲🗺🐍🏙️ (@geoanorak)
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Jin Xing@McGillCyberInf7 Apr 2022
Diner of Newcastle Team at #GISRUK2022 Liverpool
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@xkcdComic23 Sep 2021
Sloped Border xkcd.com/2519/ m.xkcd.com/2519/
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Andrew Steele@statto13 Sep 2021
New video! What’s wrong with what3words? The three-word mapping service sounds clever and cute…but actually has some ///pretty.serious.issues, for fascinating mathematical, linguistic and geographical reasons: youtube.com/watch?v=SqK0ciE0…
What’s wrong with what3words?

What’s wrong with what3words?

Mapping service what3words can give your address to three metres’ a...

youtube.com
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SSAGO@SSAGO_UK10 Aug 2021
Happy #ALevelResultsDay & #SQAResultsDay! 🥳 Congratulations to everybody who has gotten into #university today! There'll be lots of awesome opportunities ahead for all of you, including plenty of exciting university societies- and we're one of them!
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Stripped down we are all romantic (0:20 in video). Privacy protecting #ai #computervision #smartcity event playback and pose estimation from the brilliant @TomGKomar at @urbanobserv @EngineeringNCL @NU_Cities @UniofNewcastle @NewcastleCC #newcastle #greyst newcastle.urbanobservatory.a…
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It took @alexsingleton and I nearly a week to unpick all this...and we work with geographic data for a living... theconversation.com/how-engl…
How England’s complicated political geography is confusing coronavirus rules

How England’s complicated political geography is confusing coronavirus rules

Counties, local authorities, councils – how you divvy up the map changes the game significantly.

theconversation.com
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We are now open for applications to join the CDT in September 2021. Details on our website at research.ncl.ac.uk/geospatia… Closing date is Sunday 7th February. Please share with any colleagues who may be interested in joining our fantastic cohort.
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A new bit of bloggery by me: Something in the water: the mythology of Snow's map of cholera esri.com/arcgis-blog/product…
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I'm delighted we can afford an extra £16.5 bn for space lasers and shit, but can't afford £0.075 bn to give PhD students extra time to complete their hugely interrupted degrees, and have to spend six weeks fighting to get £0.020 bn to feed starving kids at Christmas.
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Data visualization and communication is a different skillset to epidemiology. It is hard to do well and even harder under pressure, but it is possible. Here's my take on Saturday's Powerpoint slides. theconversation.com/next-sli…
Next slide please: data visualisation expert on what’s wrong with the UK government’s coronavirus...

Next slide please: data visualisation expert on what’s wrong with the UK government’s coronavirus...

Everyone would benefit from fewer slides, presented more slowly and with more detailed explanation of how the data has been processed.

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NUSU@NewcastleSU26 Oct 2020
𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿 is here (28th-30th Oct)! Our clubs and societies have online slots for you to meet the committees, find out more about how they're running this year, and how to get involved! Find the full schedule here: nusu.co.uk/freshersfair
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I’ve set up a PG group for all Newcastle University @StudentsNCL postgrads, new and returning! Join now to be part of our new central group for discussion, queries and support! 👇‼️ facebook.com/groups/84422998…
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GB looks lovely in 3D with @OrdnanceSurvey Zoomstack served through @mapbox on @CesiumJS . I've updated the demo so you can now copy links to specific views steveattewell.com/zoomstack3… and search for placenames. #3dGB
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Automated pedestrian track clustering using cctv image processing from @urbanobserv @TomGKomar #ai #MachineLearning #SocialDistancing #covid19 #Newcastle @EngineeringNCL @jblefevre60
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Professor Phil James @geoanorak and Dr Ronnie Das @RonnieDas11 discuss how urban #data can help us understand the impact of social distancing measures on people and vehicle movement bit.ly/39Xsh29 @ConversationUK @urbanobserv
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