Posts tagged OpenStreetMap - SPARQLing Scottish history

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

Towns and their trades

After a conversation about the decline in Scotland's fishing industry, I posted to Mastodon about the lack of Wikidata to support analysis of places by current or former industry. I am suggesting 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

Category A listed buildings

The web page linked from the headline provides a view of the main populated places in a Council area, with the facility to obtain a list or a map of the Category A listed buildings in that area. Each Read more