Dan Saunders

Mild Geek, love Music, Spurs and F1, proud Dad 💜 and MSer DX 2018. Work life focuses on transportation, data and mapping. #COYS

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Day 28 of the #30DayMapChallenge Black, using new @OrdnanceSurvey streetlight dataset, we mapped streetlights of GB on a black background.

Even with land visible, streetlights outline the country perfectly and we use it in TRACC to spot unlit roads and plan safer walking routes.

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Day 25 of the #30DayMapChallenge Hexagons

We split Great Britain into hexagons and used TRACC to calculate the hourly average number of trains (Tue, 7am–7pm).

Clear hotspots: the South East, Manchester–Liverpool–Leeds, and the Glasgow–Edinburgh corridor.

#DataViz #Rail

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@basemap @openstreetmap Wow, that's awesome. Never knew that's where OSM started.

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Day 21 of the #30DayMapChallenge – Icons 🥐

What’s more iconic than a @GreggsOfficial sausage roll?

We mapped which stations have the most Greggs within a 15-minute walk, using different-sized sausage rolls to show accessibility with a full sausage roll legend, of course.

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@basemap @BeeNetwork @ManUtd @ChelseaFC Useful for all the fans travelling from London!

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@1MickyHazard @Charpercy84 @SpursOfficial Great work!

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If anyone would like to follow me on Bluesky here's a link

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@FakingWellness Sorry to read this. What treatments have you been offered? Not saying it is or isn't related, but I've been seeing a chiropractor and a sports masseuse for the past few years and it's really helped with my back pain and stiffness.

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Bus due on 5 minutes and it's popped off the live display. Useful.

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Love the #30daymapchallenge

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Starting the #30DayMapChallenge with Day 1: Points! 🗺️✨ Here's a map showing #PTAL (Public Transport Accessibility Levels) points in #Leicester. It's fascinating to visualise transport accessibility! #MapChallenge #GIS #PublicTransport

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Buy lots of sweets for trick or treaters. Don't put any decorations up hoping no-one calls and then I can eat them. Smart. #Halloween

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Unsure that freezing fuel duty and raising the bus cap is sending the right message for driving people onto public transport. Do both or neither.

#Budget24 #UKBudget

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Having a great time at @Butlins and been for a lovely run on the beach. I really could retire and live by the sea. Excuse the windswept hair. #running #run

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Ridiculous, spend over £300 on a @Xerox printer 15 months ago, a part fails. Call @Xerox and they wants £340 to send an engineer out. What a swizz.

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@TangoMango9 @RachelHorne19 @Sitting_Bull_UK Definitely Lollies. Lorries is an insane achievement that sadly I don't think I'd ever be able to do. Unless they are Fisher price lorries.

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Off to a friend's Wedding near stoke today. Have decided to get the train instead of drive, though it would be cheaper and quicker to drive. Oh well, you can't drink and drive, but you can have train beers!

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@TangoMango9 @RachelHorne19 @Sitting_Bull_UK I'm more confident with two lollies.

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Off to Ireland again today to see my birth mum. Sadly she was given only 6 months to live 4 months ago. I am glad to have found her and get to spend some time with her and fit in three trips over the past year. #adopted #cancersucks

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Great bit of 5 a side tonight, few assists and a goal. Not bad considering the opposition was half my age.

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Up way too early today. At the train station to be at the @transportgovuk in Birmingham for 9am. Let's hope the train service works ok today.