Tag: Present day

• Does the 1974 border still show?

  

  I mapped every business in OpenStreetMap named after Lancashire or Yorkshire. My planned main test, in the places that left Yorkshire, could not be answered. But the old border is sharp where it did not move, and the Lancashire name thins in Greater Manchester and Merseyside.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  borders, Britain, Business names, Northern England, OpenStreetMap, Persistence test, place names, Present day, Twentieth century

• Which way do cricket pitches face?

  

  The old advice says a cricket pitch should run north to south, out of the evening sun. I measured every cricket pitch in OpenStreetMap and every sports pitch in the UK: 55% of cricket strips follow the rule, tennis courts mostly do, and football pitches point anywhere.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, OpenStreetMap, Present day, sport, Sunlight, UK, weather and climate, World

• Bus deserts: the villages with no bus and the last bus home

  

  I counted every timetabled bus in England on a Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday and checked every village. 41% have no stop with four or more weekday buses within 800 metres, 62% have no bus after seven in the evening and 68% have none on Sunday.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, England, Poverty and wealth, Present day, Remoteness and access, Transport

• Do by-elections make Parliament listen?

  

  I followed 366 UK by-elections through a century of Hansard. Around polling day the Commons mentions the town 4.0 times as often as similar towns, and a year later still 1.9 times. Before 1945, no detectable rise.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Before and after test, Britain, elections, Hansard, Parliament, Present day, Public attention, Twentieth century, UK

• A day from London

  

  Leave Charing Cross at dawn and travel for twelve hours. In 1750 that reached 5% of Great Britain; in the 1830s 19%; by rail in 1850 at least 47%; in 1910 at least 72%; today 97%. I rebuilt five eras of roads and railways to map the edge of the day.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, Georgian, history, London, Present day, railways, Roads, Transport, UK, Victorian