I thought it might be fun to try to map the limits of my geocaching/geohashing. That is, to draw the smallest possible convex polygon that surrounds all of the geocaches I've found and geohashpoints I've successfully visited.

Mathematically, such a shape is a convex hull - the smallest map, geography, maps, geohashing, geocaching, programming, php

At school, our 9-year-old is currently studying the hsitory of human civilization from the late stone age through to the bronze age. The other week, the class was split into three groups, each of which was tasked with researching a different piece of megalithic architecture:

One group coaching, school, geography, children, history, teaching, education

(This is yet another post about Automattic. Seee more posts about my experience of working at Automattic.)

Off the back of my recent post about privileges I enjoy as a result of my location and first language, even at my highly-multinational employer, and inspired by my colleague Atanas' automattic, geography, cartography, work, graphs, job, teleworking, maps

I've been thinking recently about three kinds of geographic privilege I enjoy in my work at Automattic. (See more posts about my experience of working at Automattic.)
1. Timezone Privilege
Take a look at the map below. I'm the pink pin here in Oxfordshire. The green pins are my immediate team - automattic, geography, brexit, languages, language, employment, work, job, travel, teleworking, maps, passport, timezones

As I mentioned last year, for several years I've collected pretty complete historic location data from GPSr devices I carry with me everywhere, which I collate in a personal μlogger server.

Going back further, I've got somewhat-spotty data going back a decade, thanks mostly to the fact that I geography, javascript, moving, cartography, graphs, nostalgia, infographics, maps, houses, covid-19, open source