Tag: Present day

• Not where it says on the ticket: the airports and stations far from their namesake

  

  Frankfurt-Hahn is 103 km from Frankfurt and Paris Vatry 136 km from Paris. I measured how far every airport and every UK railway station stands from the place in its name, and checked every long case by hand.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, Data bias, OpenStreetMap, place names, Present day, railways, Transport, UK, Wikidata, World

• Lost kingdoms on the high street

  

  Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria vanished more than a thousand years ago, but their names are still on shop signs. 75 of 95 Wessex businesses are in Wessex, and all 33 Northumbria businesses are in Northumbria.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Anglo-Saxons, Britain, Business names, cities, Early medieval, England, medieval, Northern England, OpenStreetMap, Persistence test, place names, Present day

• Which way do the UK’s churches face? Not towards their saint’s sunrise

  

  I measured the axes of 32,007 churches from OpenStreetMap. Old churches face east, Victorian ones often face the street, and the old idea that churches point at sunrise on their patron saint’s day fails: midsummer and midwinter saints’ churches face the same way.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, history, medieval, OpenStreetMap, Present day, religion, Sunlight, UK, Wikidata

• Where party money lives

  

  I mapped every donation to a UK party from a company, union or other organisation since 2001 by the donor’s address. 59% of the money came from London, and a quarter from one constituency.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Britain, cities, elections, industry, London, political parties, Poverty and wealth, Present day, UK

• Could your town fit in its stadium?

  

  Beaver Stadium could seat its township 9.9 times over and Clones could fit in St Tiernach’s Park 15.4 times. I found every sports ground in the world bigger than its town, and checked each one by hand.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  cities, Data bias, Ireland, Place search, Present day, sport, Towns and cities, Wikidata, World, world maps