Mapping Hacks

The English ‘defra’ (Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs) has
a site on Noise Mapping England

Noise - unwanted sound - is a universal problem and most of us have been affected by it at some point in our lives.

It goes way beyond noise as a problem. Noise is. And it has effects, and
those effects are seldom just good, or bad. But before we can start to
examine the effects of sound (note the clever shift from the mostly
negative ‘noise’ to the more neutral ’sound’) in the human environment
we need to track and map it.

So it is all pretty groovy to fine the defra site. And of course, more then a
bit what I call infuriating to see those beautiful Tower Hamlets maps with
those dreaded words on the bottom.

Yes, those words “© Crown copyright. All rights reserved Defra 100018880
2004″

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