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Jim Dickson

A Mathematics graduate who enjoyed a career in the Royal Navy and then went on to work in education. Likes to be outside. Keen to mess around with maps, charts, web sites and pictures.

Flooding the Wantsum Channel on Open Street Map

20/06/2024 by Jim Dickson

This post presents and animation of how the Wantsum Channel would look on Open Street 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.

Categories Historical Landscapes Tags LiDAR Leave a comment

Between the huts and the sea wall, hollyhocks

19/06/2024 by Jim Dickson

A micro climate between the beach huts and the sea wall.

Categories out and about Tags Herne Bay

Flooding up the Wantsum Channel on Mudge’s Map

19/06/202419/06/2024 by Jim Dickson

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.

Categories Historical Landscapes Tags historical maps, LiDAR, Mudge, Wantsum Channel Leave a comment

Tracing the Plenty Brook Through Herne Bay

07/07/202415/06/2024 by Jim Dickson

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.

Categories Historical Landscapes Tags GIS, historical maps Leave a comment

Searching for Kent’s Wantsum Channel on Historic OS Maps

19/06/202414/06/2024 by Jim Dickson

An exploration of historical maps and modern OS data layers to find the Wantsum Channel.

Categories Historical Landscapes Tags historical maps Leave a comment

The County of Kent – map by William Mudge 1801, the first map published by the Ordnance Survey.

14/06/202413/06/2024 by Jim Dickson

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.

Categories sources and resources Tags historical maps Leave a comment

Integrating LiDAR data into QGIS

13/06/202410/06/2024 by Jim Dickson

a short note about LIDAR and how to connect QGIS to LIDAR data released by the UK Environment Agency.

Categories sources and resources Tags LiDAR Leave a comment

Visual Historical Records – sources of historical maps, aerial photography, lidar and other images.

13/06/202410/06/2024 by Jim Dickson

Some links and discussion about sources of old maps, aerial photography, LiDAR and other historic sketches

Categories General, sources and resources Tags historical maps, historical photographs and drawings Leave a comment

Bank holiday flowers on the shingle between the beach huts at Hampton, Herne Bay.

24/06/202427/05/2024 by Jim Dickson
Categories out and about Tags clouds and weather, dog, Herne Bay, seascape, West Beach Burtie Leave a comment

Hampton, Herne Bay, Kent. Coastline and littoral then and now.

27/05/2024 by Jim Dickson

a visual comparison of historic maps and current satellite imagery showing how the coastline at Hampton, Herne Bay Kent has changed.

Categories Historical Landscapes Tags Herne Bay, historical maps, satellite view Leave a comment
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