Recently, Ian Clark blogged about proposed closures in Leeds Libraries on the Voices For The Library site. Following the Freedom of Information request this blog post was based on, we thought it might be useful to map some of the data, as a simple way of comparing libraries in Leeds. (NB: These figures were only [...]
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Leeds Libraries use Mapped in Yahoo Pipes
Posted by garygre on December 29, 2010
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/leeds-libraries-use-mapped-in-yahoo-pipes/
Magnificent Maps Exhibition
I visited the ‘Magnificent Maps’ exhibition at The British Library a couple of weeks ago. It contained so many colourful, imaginative and impressive hand drawn maps covering social, historical and political aspects of life. The creativity that went into these maps was fantastic. My particular favourites were a Chinese terrain map on silk (1700), an [...]
Posted by garygre on August 9, 2010
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/magnificent-maps-exhibition/
Twitter follower/friend map
I seem to be getting into the swing of things with Yahoo Pipes at the moment and I seem to be creating lots of maps. Every time I use it, something else clicks in my head and puts a smile on my face. Yesterday, Aaron Tay asked me if I knew how to create a [...]
Posted by garygre on July 8, 2010
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/twitter-followerfriend-map/
A Travellers Map in Yahoo Pipes
Before putting together the Surrey Fiction Book Map for work I was considering the possibility of creating a map of the world that would link from markers to Surrey Libraries’ catalogue. I didn’t fancy creating it manually and I was sure it could be done via Yahoo Pipes. However, at the time I hadn’t used [...]
Posted by garygre on July 5, 2010
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/a-travellers-map-in-yahoo-pipes/
Surrey Fiction Book Map
At the end of June, Surrey is running a festival called ‘Celebrating Surrey‘, which highlights creative talent in Surrey. My team in the Library Service decided it would be a good idea to support this with something web based and creative. Part of the thinking behind this was to show colleagues in the Library Service [...]
Posted by garygre on June 8, 2010
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/surrey-fiction-book-map/
This Made Me 2
In a previous blog post I talked about a biographical project I wanted to attempt – I called it “This Made Me”. I wanted to put together a visual representation of things I consider influenced me throughout my life and made me the person I am today, just as an experiment to see what I [...]
Posted by garygre on June 3, 2010
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/this-made-me-2/
