Mapping Hacks

I am the only one of my friends regularly able to walk past a map shop without skipping a beat. And i’d almost managed to walk past “Mostly Maps” in Hay, before doubletaking at what was in the corner of my eye, rushing back and pressing my nose to the window like an urchin on […]

i recall talking years ago to paul at state51 about creating a free grid system, a free national or international reference system.
the British National Grid, as defined by the Ordnance Survey, is a transverse mercator projection. The convenience of this projection is that units of it correspond to distances in metres. The Geography::NationalGrid module for […]