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Comment on Lost Villages by Ray Girvan

Ray Girvan — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 05:00:58 +0000

I wonder if the template’s readily available? Probably not. While the site itself is WordPress, the map app must be a plugin written using the Google Maps API toolkit.

Comment on New Jobs for the New Year by David Platt

David Platt — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:56:33 +0000

Thanks. It took slightly longer than I had originally hoped …

Comment on Lost Villages by David Platt

David Platt — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:55:41 +0000
Ah! Yes, that would make a lot of sense. A quite brilliant use of Google Maps. I'm very interested to see that the site's apparently powered by a WordPress. I wonder if the template's readily available? (I'm also intrigued by the project's relation to GeoWebDev (“Commerical Mapping Solutions”). Who are GeoWebDev and do they have other maps out there?)

Comment on New Jobs for the New Year by Ray Girvan

Ray Girvan — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:15:12 +0000

Excellent! Glad to see you’re settled.

Comment on Lost Villages by Ray Girvan

Ray Girvan — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:13:19 +0000

Afterthought: I just read the “About” page and see that it’s a collaborative project – I guess those regions reflect the locations of interest of editors they have so far.

Comment on Lost Villages by David Platt

David Platt — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:22:17 +0000

That’s a great website; thanks for the link!

It is oddly geographically restricted to the midlands and southeast but it also shows far more villages than Stephen Fisk’s Abandoned Communities (and draws my attention to a significant regional gap in Fisk’s map: the midlands).

Secondly, while there are lots of villages that don’t have an identified cause of abandonment, most of the ones appear to have been abandoned as a result of agricultural enclosure.

Comment on Lost Villages by Ray Girvan

Ray Girvan — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 22:53:41 +0000
See also lostvillages.co.uk - this has many examples, although the location coverage is bit selective.

Comment on Transmission Resumes by David Platt

David Platt — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:26:32 +0000

I can’t decide whether my use of footnotes is more a consequence of my spending too much time in grad school or my having read too many books by Terry Pratchett.

Probably just too close to call.

Comment on Transmission Resumes by Jessica Sadoway

Jessica Sadoway — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:59:28 +0000

This is my first discovery of your blog and I absolutely have to say it:

You footnote your blog posts. This is fantastic.

Comment on Binchester and Hadrian’s Wall by Transmission Resumes | Small Finds from the Spoilheap

Transmission Resumes | Small Finds from the Spoilheap — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:08:18 +0000

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