"Look at it this way"

I'm in the middle of the annual piece of work exploring 'The Ridge' and Danny MacAskill's film cum ad for Red Bell...   A new campaign by the BMC targets our mountains , and is trying to raise one million to improve the nation's mountains. There's a useful video here showing the background to the campaign.

For Remembrance Sunday, a reminder of how war changes landscapes as well as lives... Château Wood (during the Battle of Passchendaele), 29th of October, 1917. Photo by Frank Hurley. pic.twitter.com/exUwXRoaX8 — Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) November 12, 2017

Alasdair Rae has produced a number of excellent maps, and this is one his most useful projects to date. This BBC News article is interesting, and explains something of the project.   You can use the tool linked to from above to explore your own area. Have a guess what the percentages might be before you do this, or compare your area with the country. There are some interesting additional facts in this blog . I like this one for example: Buildings cover less of Britain than the land revealed when the tide goes out... Download the whole Atlas of Land Cover in the UK here.... I put in my own postcode where I live, expecting a larger than average amount for farmland... And unsurprisingly, it is up to 81%, with only 3% built on...   You can follow Alasdair on Twitter. @undertheraedar

There are many map visualisations out there, and most of them have appeared on LivingGeography over the years. Parallel maps have been getting a lot of attention over the last few days as one of their latest projects (from October 2017), which maps census data on population structure has been more widely discovered. It includes a 3D option with panning and tilting of the mapping.   The population pyramids are drawn instantly as the cursor is moved over a particular Census output area. This allows for instant comparisons between different parts of a city, or urban/rural comparisons, or a look at how certain areas are attracting retirement populations. Here's evidence of Student populations being concentrated in certain areas of Leeds - linked to the OCR 'B' Geography chapters that I wrote. It's worth remembering that there are other Parallel map projects too - explore the whole website to find maps on air quality and other variables. For example, how about t