As a followup to my mastodon account (see this post), I’ve also created an experimental Blue Sky account. I’ve still no idea how long they’ll last.
Monthly Archives: February 2025
Cauldron Falls – Winter 2024
The second of this winter’s videos of Cauldron Falls. This – and other videos and photographs from my Winter 2024 trip – can be found here.
Maps – Early Spring 2025 Update
It’s time for another little update and this time it’s 182 maps of Cardiganshire taken from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952’ series.
Interesting places covered this update include:
Tours of Old York #3: The City of Legions
And onto another Tour of Old York. This time our video comes courtesy of the British Pathe YouTube channel and brings us two and one quarter minutes of footage of York shot between 1930 to 1939.
‘The City of Legions – York’
York Central works on Google Earth
It looks like Google Earth’s satellite view has updated to show some of the new work around the York Central development. The latest imagery is, as of writing, still about six months out of date – but you can really see how the area is starting to change in comparison to 2023 and 2022.
September 28th, 2024
June 16th, 2023
September 13th, 2022
Linkspam: Using Machine Learning for Geoglyph Detection
PNAS has an interesting paper on using AI and Machine Learning to try and identify new Nazca Pampa geoglyphs in the Peruvian Nazca Desert. It’s a fun little lunchtime skim with a few nice images of some of the newly found geoglyphs.
Cauldron Falls – Winter 2024
And here’s is the first of a set of videos taken at Cauldron Falls in the Winter of 2024. See more videos and photographs from that trip here!
Happy 30th Birthday ‘Anglosphere’!
So here’s something of an oddity; the Oxford English Dictionary thinks the word ‘Anglosphere’ is a mere thirty years old this month.
