Visualising the flight paths that link the World’s continents with Python — As a result of covid air travel has obviously reduced significantly in the last two years, however it is showing signs of recovering to its former glory. In 2019 it was estimated that the total number of passengers carried by planes hit 4.5 billion, an all time high. In spite…

Mapping where the worlds 7.8 billion humans live with Python — This article was largely inspired by the subreddit r/peopleliveincities. Humans have spread themselves far and wide across Planet Earth, touching every continent and casting their impact across vast swathes of the world. However when you actually look at population density maps you tend to find that the majority of people…

Bring dead worlds to life with imagination and a clever use of colourmaps — The best way to learn something new is to solve interesting or unusual problems. In this article I will show you how to generate and manipulate highly advanced colourmaps in order to generate topographical maps of everyone's second favourite planet, Mars. Thanks to hype generated largely by a certain American…

Illustrating the stark reality of global carbon dioxide emissions with Python — Introduction For some reason, climate change has been in the news a lot recently. Specifically the link between carbon dioxide emissions from our cars, factories, ships, planes (to name a few) and the warming of our planet via the greenhouse effect. The image above shows the world’s short cycle carbon dioxide…

Who needs GIS when you can build eye-catching 3D topography maps with Python? — Cartography twitter is currently awash with some eye catching topography maps of individual countries or regions. This is primarily due to expansion in readily available data sources and a lot of bored geography nerds who are keeping themselves busy during a pandemic. There are lots of tools and methods…