Unfortunately, this post won’t live up to any expectation from its title and has just turned in some links rather than my intended musings. Geo Place Everything Happens Somewhere 2018 BEIS / NEED OSMaps Wheresthe Path? – can bring up Google Sat view from British National Grid tile ref e.g. SE1234 Maps comparison Street Map includes 1:50,000 & 1:25,000 OS maps and accept British National Grid ref e.g. SE1234 Open Street Map – maps you can contribute to!

I only link to one other in the Blogroll panel in the right-hand column of this blog, and that is the now no longer maintained blog of Ulla, the love of my life. Recently I pointed others to her posts on pregnancy & baby issues such as choice in where one has birth and Baby-led weaning, mainly for links to other resources. But those articles are inter-dispersed amongst others so I thought I would collect links together in one post here in reverse order:

Lots of changes in past year, and whole new set of challenges. A fresh start that is looking good. Stay cool.

At home, I just installed QGIS (Desktop GIS), again after long time, on OpenSUSE 13.2. Looks good. I needed to enable relevant repository (in my case: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/openSUSE_13.2/ ) I have been also looking at web articles of whole open source mapping software stack which has come on in leaps and bounds in last few years. As I now only use budget shared hosting for my own sites (and any website/service playing around) so I am limited in what I can test online myself of the tools.

This blog is now accessible via more secure https (TLS). The default site address is now https://j12.org/blog/ Here are lines in .htaccess file for this j12.org website that mean http requests are redirected to use a https connection RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} but before that had to ensure had a certificate set up as well as https itself for the j12.org domain. My website hosting provider site5 sorted this for me on request.

The 9 Lives of Ray The Cat Jones By Stewart Home Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane by Stewart Home Pannt-ante Editions Alex’s Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos Agile! – The good, the Hype and the Ulgy by Bertrand Meyer Springer The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership by Jeffrey Liker & Gary L. Convis Workplace Management by Taiicho Ohne THE DISTRIBUTION OF GAS BY WALTER HOLE MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS

SNS website uses Open Street Map as background mapping to show areas of Multiple Dreprivation. Equivalent statistics for rest of Great Britain uses Ordnance Survey (OS) mapbase. If you apply for a online quote for a Gas Service pipe (new or alteration)in Wales or the West of England then can mark up on large scale OS Mastermap.

There are many ways I recommend to use and deploy, where you have opportunity, encryption, to keep your privacy, and encourage others. This blog is not available via SSL/HTTPS but I am considering it [Update: now available via SSL: https://j12.org/blog/ ]. The extra cost including of certification of certificates are an issue though. Although CAcert is a poor man’s alternative but gives most users poor experience but better than nothing and considering using for at least own blog login.

I recommend detailed but readable reports from Carbon Connect. Look out for Future Heat series coming on tails of Future Electricity Series. They are preparing them now. Government releasing interesting Energy stats and reports including household energy usage breakdown from the National Energy Efficiency Data-Framework (NEED) Pity licensing issues mean that Address-level data from the National Heat Map to load into your own GIS software is only available to local Authorities.

I have followed the saga of opening up Address datasets in UK. If we can not open PAF or NLPG then let build an open set. See some developments: http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/twos-company-threes-a-crowd/ This would hopefully be opportunity to get away from distortions of the PAF’s POSTTOWN based on delivering mail. e.g.Penistone is not in SHEFFIELD, even if PAF has it as POSTTOWN for addresses in Penistone, Yorkshire. Let get to know our Traditional Counties again.