Roman Roads

Just quickly. Looking at the downloads available from the Ancient World Mapping Centre (those nice people behind the Barrington Atlas). The above easily created by dropping their Roman roads shape file onto a base map of Europe (very old, using Digital Chart of the World elevation polygons - vector data [hurrah!] - but broken down by country which made stitching the lot together rather painful).

Swineshead Abbey

A slight departure. The idea behind the Lincolnshire Fenland Lidar project was to produce seamless mapping at all scales, from that A0 poster on my wall down to the best resolution that 2m lidar can offer (about 1:5000 in my experience). I still feel the chosen colour ramp works well, but it represents a compromise and individual sites are certainly worth revisiting. This image is of Swineshead Abbey (occupying higher ground slightly south of centre), with the motte and bailey castle Manwar Ings just to the NW. Starting with Environment Agency data as usual, but seeing what SAGA GIS will do for us. I have wondered if the abbey wasn't sitting on a watercourse with access to the sea. Some of the sinuous channel forms here reinforce that idea.