Suprageography

A quick visit to the Grand Union Canal between Harefield and Denham, at the point where the Colne Valley Viaduct, part of the HS2 railway, crosses it. The construction of the two-mile-long viaduc...

https://oobrien.com/2024/03/the-colne-valley-viaduct-crosses-the-grand-union-canal/

Back in 2018, I did a London Borough Challenge – visit all 32 London Boroughs, plus the City of London, in as short a time as possible. I made things hard for myself. I decided that my proof wa...

https://oobrien.com/2024/01/all-the-boroughs/

Yes, we did it again. All the Docks 2 took place in London on 9 July. Five teams (up from three last time) each cycled between a fifth of the Santander Cycles docking stations in London. I again ...

https://oobrien.com/2023/07/all-the-docks-2/

Seven years ago, I wrote “We don’t have individual building age open data in the UK” – but that is no longer true! The MLUHC (for England Wales) and the Scottish Government via the Energy...

https://oobrien.com/2023/07/building-data/

In an effort to focus my (now rather limited) spare time on a more nuanced set of web projects, I have consolidated some websites. Three Blogs into One I have combined two other blogs into this o...

https://oobrien.com/2023/03/consolidation/

At the end of each year (normally between Christmas and New Year), there’s a lot to tidyup across Bike Share Map (BSM), the Meddin Bike-Sharing World Map (BSWM) and the UK Shared Micromobility ...

https://oobrien.com/2022/12/big-feed-tidyup/

Routes I created GPX route files for the challenge. These were created manually in QGIS, using the OpenStreetMap standard “Mapnik” render as a background, by drawing lines, with Google Street...

https://oobrien.com/2022/10/all-the-docks-technical-notes-on-the-routes-and-map/

On Monday I spent a lot of time (over 13 hours) cycling between 268 docking stations in London. It was for the All the Docks challenge, as part of Team East, with Joe (Be.EV CCO, and ex-ofo) and ...

https://oobrien.com/2022/10/all-the-docks-how-it-went/

On Monday I will be attempting to visit every Santander Cycles docking station in east London by bike, starting at 9am outside the velodrome in the Lea Valley VeloPark (the “Pringle” from th...

https://oobrien.com/2022/09/all-the-docks/

You may be wondering why it’s been so quiet on Bikesharp, the last couple of years… well the reason is that I have been a data journalist on this topic for Zag Daily, an online magazine focus...

https://oobrien.com/2022/07/zag-daily/