My latest #map project: Maps showing the spread of #sport facilities in #OpenStreetMap in t̶h̶e̶ ̶C̶e̶l̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶I̶s̶l̶e̶s̶ #Ireland & #Britain
More here (incl. software used): https://technomancy.org/openstreetmap/heatmaps/sport-ireland-britain/
Gaelic Games in Ireland with the same colours shows *much* more gaelic games facilities mapped in Ireland compared to cricket facilities. Hon the parish!
Rugby League, with the same scales. Clearly it's not as popular in OSM as rugby union
In OSM, there seems to be a high number of golf clubs mapped around Inverness, Scotland
Find the #software to make that here: https://technomancy.org/openstreetmap/heatmaps/sport-ireland-britain/
If you make any interesting maps, please let me know. 🙂
@rory "soccer"? can you do that one again with football :)
@wolfie hehe. #OpenStreetMap uses `soccer` as a term.
FYI this is the “football” values
@ak @wolfie In case you're interested, here's the American Football ( https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TjO ). You're right about Hull.
Caveat: #OSM data is very uneven. There can be places/cities/regions which have much more data. There's plenty of pitches mapped which don't have a `sport` attribute/key ( warning big slow query https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/TjQ )
@rory fair enough that they use soccer on there but I thought the national sport would've had a lot more heat, I guess cos it's more often just played casually in recreation grounds that aren't specifically marked as "for football"
@wolfie Perhaps it's not a great visualization, because for each sport, the colours are relative to the min/max of that value. A place with an unusually large 'score' throws the scales, so most of the map isn't very noticable.
Here's `sport=soccer` with the same scales as in the `sport=gaelic_games` map.
@rory ah I see now, that makes sense!
@rory thank you for this, it's all very interesting 😄 seeing the south coast heat spot for equestrian as well tallies with my experience growing up there lol
@wolfie horsey people? In the South East of England?! I'm SHOCKED, I tell you! /s 😛😛
@rory hehe I never rode myself but I did do my year 10 work experience week at a stables 😅
@wolfie hehe. OSM has lots of people interested in niche interests. There's lots for mapping horse riding stuff https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Riding
The `sport` tag in OSM. Unsurprisingly following population spread