Author: Jim Dickson
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Flooding up the Wantsum Channel on Mudge’s Map
This post presents and animation of how the Wantsum Channel would look on Mudge’s 1801 map by shading different elevations of Environment Agency sourced LiDAR data. A conclusion of the post is to present a possible medieval East Kent Coastline based on an elevation of 2.75 m.
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Tracing the Plenty Brook Through Herne Bay
This post presents the historical location of the Plenty Brook as it passed through the Herne Bay Memorial Park area prior to the development of the site.
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Searching for Kent’s Wantsum Channel on Historic OS Maps
An exploration of historical maps and modern OS data layers to find the Wantsum Channel.
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The County of Kent – map by William Mudge 1801, the first map published by the Ordnance Survey.
Introducing Capt Mudge RA’s first published Ordnance Survey map as found on the David Rumsey Map Collection website. The map is embedded here and the reader can pan and zoom from this post.
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Integrating LiDAR data into QGIS
a short note about LIDAR and how to connect QGIS to LIDAR data released by the UK Environment Agency.
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Visual Historical Records – sources of historical maps, aerial photography, lidar and other images.
Some links and discussion about sources of old maps, aerial photography, LiDAR and other historic sketches
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Hampton, Herne Bay, Kent. Coastline and littoral then and now.
a visual comparison of historic maps and current satellite imagery showing how the coastline at Hampton, Herne Bay Kent has changed.
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The Fractals of Moze Creek and Cunnyfur Ooze
Satellite image of fractal mudflats in North East Essex.
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The Naze, Walton – OS Coastline 1888-1913 and Satellite 2024
Overlay of historic OS map with current satellite imagery to show change in shoreline at Walton-on-Naze.
