I’ve just added 575 map images of Dorset from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series to the map project.
Interesting places covered in Dorset update include:
Map Stuff – Early September 2022 Update
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Gut Fauna / XKCD
Channel 4’s Turnover and Profit
Channel 4’s turnover and post tax profit from 1993 to the end of 2021 (the last full year currently available), both in absolute terms and adjusted to 2021 prices via the BoE inflation calculator.
Chart data points can be rolled over to provide more information.
Turnover
Continue readingBuilding QEMU 7.0 on Raspberry Pi OS
The Introduction
And spring 2022 brings us another major release of QEMU – in this case, QEMU 7.0, available in all of its tar.xz’d loveliness directly from qemu.org.
Whilst the Raspberry Pi OS‘s package repository remains the fastest, simplest way to get QEMU onto your Pi, Pi OS’s Debian lineage often leaves it trailing the cutting edge – in the case of QEMU, the packaged release for Raspberry Pi OS (version 2022-04-04) is version 5.2 from way back in December 2020.
Fortunately, QEMU is fairly easy to download and compile ourselves.
Continue readingMap Stuff – Early August 2022 Update
And another 2026 map images from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series:
- 1564 Maps from Lancashire.
- 462 Maps from Warwickshire
Lancashire – 1664 Maps
Interesting places covered in Lancashire include:
Warwickshire – 462 Maps
Interesting places covered in Warwickshire include:
DALL-E Verses DALL-E Mini
And, shortly after my last DALL-E related post, I finally got access to the full product!
And what better way to start off with the full-fat version than by running the same requests as my last post and comparing the outputs.
Clive Sinclair drawn by HR Giger
The Now Obligatory DALL·E Mini Spam
Some DALL·E Mini spam. It’s a little late but… meh.
Clive Sinclair drawn by HR Giger
Maps – Early July 2022 Update
I’ve added another 1108 map images:
422 maps from Cardiganshire.
686 maps from Cornwall.
Cardiganshire
Interesting places covered in Cardiganshire include: Aberystwyth, Lampeter, and Aberaeron.
Cornwall
Interesting places covered in Cornwall include: St Ives, Lands End, and St. Michael’s Mount
More Maps.
New Toy – Old UK Maps.
The National Library of Scotland has placed parts of it’s rather a nice collection of old maps online. It’s all very modern – slippy, google maps style pages abound – and predominantly released under permissive licences. It is not, however, easy to get a full map for reuse in a school report or similar.
So I’ve run up a little code, grabbed some of the maps and put them on a new sub-site here. These maps are licensed by the NLS (as opposed to being in the public domain) and this license has carried down to my derivative work. As of writing, there are only seven of them, but I have several hundred more ready to go up shortly and a block of several thousand more to go up at some point after that.
