Tweets about maps. Creator of free online digital mapping course (in partnership with NUIG/ICRAG):peasymaps.com/qgis-school. Business of map products/services.
George Orwell in 1984:
-War is peace
-Freedom is slavery
-Ignorance is strength
The Biden admin:
-Genocide is self defense
-Bombing Yemen is deescalation
-Vetoing a ceasefire is the pursuit for peace
When they say “it’s complicated” or “it’s a complex situation”, that is gaslighting designed to make you dismiss your moral and logical instincts. It’s not complicated. It’s colonialism, it’s apartheid, it’s genocide. It’s wrong.
#Palestine
Planning to take on the Inishowen 100 this summer?
Congrats to Karen who completed the beginners' Peasy Maps course and created this fantastic product, which shows all the stops and the km between them!
#map#lovemaps#inishowen#donegal#govisitdonegal#wildatlanticway#GIS
A really fantastic turn out of almost 200 people, they came in all the colours of the rainbow to stand in pride yesterday! Thank you to everybody for helping us make this happen. What a great shot 📸 🌈💚🧡💜💙❤️🌳🌊☀️ #allwelcomehere#inishowenpride#Be_An_Ally#6days2go
On one (the commonage) side of this sheep wire, just molinia grass: how Ireland's uplands are now.
On the other (my) side, a riot of wildflowers, young native trees, buzzing pollinators, and birdsong: how our uplands could be.
What - literally - on Earth are we waiting for?
florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe
Fantastic to meet members of the iCatch Network this evening. Over the next 4 weeks they will gain skills to investigate riverine issues using digital mapping.
Funded by @The_Wheel_IRL and the Community Development Waters Programme.
#iCatchNetwork#Rivers#DigitalMapping#QGIS
This week in Nature: Visual display – Fossil suggests pterosaurs used coloured feathers for visual communication. Browse the full issue: go.nature.com/3MyeCCs
It's #WorldCurlewDay - like so many of our plants and animals, Curlews can't survive in a landscape that has so little space for nature. Mainly, if Curlews are to survive this decade we need a radical transformation of how we farm land
Congratulations to Donna Nelson who won the @ChangeMakersDL best poster in our open poll! Donna mapped her highlights of the Inishowen 100 - a very useful tool for any visitors asking for her local expertise. We love the incorporation of QR codes.
#inishowen#SeedsOfChange#QGIS
Voting is open!
Our @ChangeMakersDL Digital Mapping Project taught a group of the Inishowen community how to make their own maps and apply their new skills in a personal project.
You can vote for your favourite poster at this link: pollunit.com/polls/eurc7cfzf…#SeedsOfChange#QGIS
Thread: Ancient Woodland is a scientific definition meaning a site which has always been wooded since 1600AD. There are less than 100 in Ireland. This National Tree Week here’s an account of these woods & threats to their survival.