After noting the Union Street fire in Wikidata, I revisited the previous query on disasters in the Glasgow area. It is now capturing more of the disastrous fires on the 1960s. A potential extension Read more
Category: ScottishInfrastructure
Articles on data views of present-day services in Scotland
Pub crawl
Seeing in the Wikidata update that CAMRA Pub IDs had now been loaded as an identifier, I queried for those with the ID in Scotland. It is quite a detailed map, with colour-coding often designating Read more
Beeching and South Lanarkshire
Seeing in this OTD post the range of stations in South Lanarkshire which were closed on 4 January 1965, it was striking how much impact this must have made on the isolation of these communities. Read more
Hydro-electric and wind power stations
I began looking at the Wikidata information on hydro-electric power stations, whose development was a feature of 20th century Scotland. Some of the date information is scant, and some is Read more
Postwar rail network contraction
Today was the first actual return from the Bot program which seeks to present On this Day information on the closures of Scottish railway stations. The first former station was Alyth Junction between Read more
Distilleries
After looking at a couple of Articles for Deletion on Wikipedia, I began looking at the information on Wikidata about distilleries, bonded warehouses, etc., and generated a map. Then I began to Read more
Postwar rail network contraction
Creating an on-this-day Mastodon post to highlight the loss of an area service (usually associated with the Beeching cuts) has needed additional activity to extract information held in Wikipedia and Read more
Civic manufactures
In the 19th century several Scottish iron foundries became well-known for producing standardised objects, particularly civic fountains and bandstands. This Wikimedia Commons page utilises Listeria Read more
Tolbooths
Last July I looked at Tolbooths in Scottish towns, including some Wikidata adjustments to distinguish them, as the data had become fankled with Tollbooths, which are not the same thing. I posted this Read more
Road and railway bridges
A SPARQL query to map category A & B listed road and rail bridges in Scotland: SELECT DISTINCT (?showLabel as ?layer) ?loc ?pic ?picLabel ?picURI ?herlistLabel ?cooncilLabel WHERE { SERVICE Read more