Why don’t I know this?

“Edinburgh … is trying to become a million-tree city by 2030.”

I live here, I’m interested in nature and pay attention to local news. I have never heard of this ambition.

Is it poor comms? Going stealth in fear of anti-wokery?

My latest blog combines my interest in #satellite imagery visualisation with mobile app development in #Flutter! I built an app designed to browse natural colour images from the #Sentinel-2 satellite. I share how to build it in the blog, along with the code on GitHub.

www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Today is International Fairy Day!

The Sìth 'fairies' appear in many Gaelic place-names, such as Coignashie ~ Còig nan Sìth (buff.ly/Of2nMFK).

Do you know sìth place-names?

#Placenames #Gaelic #Fairies #InternationalFairyDay

Image with permission of the National Library of Scotland: maps.nls.uk

Big news! The IMA is launching a #Map of the Month subscription. Support a variety of indy mappers making beautiful products, by giving the gift of exploration to yourself or someone special.

Please help share this limited offering (closes Jun 15)!

somethingaboutmaps.bigcartel.com/product/map-...

Faigh eòlas air goireasan air-loidhne!
Tha faclair aig NàdarAlba anns am faigh sibh briathrachas co-cheangailte ris an àrainneachd nàdarra.
~
NatureScot has a dictionary of Gaelic terms relating to the natural environment

buff.ly/49KMY0M

@naturescot.bsky.social

#Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Cleachdi

As part of my latest adventures building with #Flutter, I've made a blog post to share how to change font size of text in the DateRangePicker. A small thing but it took me ages to figure out from the text heavy doc. I’ve made a visual guide instead to hopefully help others!

dev.to/rachaele/how...

Made it onto my first starter pack, thanks @rauljimenez.info ! 👩🏻‍💻🗺️

Curious to know the challenges and steps that were involved in adding data race safety to the latest version of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Swift?📱Phil, principal software development engineer shares all in this blog post 😍 https://buff.ly/4blNiop #SoftwareEngineering #SwiftLang

Part of learning about Scottish Place Names with @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social & @ainmean-aite.bsky.social is looking at old maps 😍!

Pont’s maps of Scotland were published late 1500s, & are a valuable resource for place name study. Here’s a snippet from Torridon area:

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It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest

I've been to a version of this talk before and it's a good'un. Dr Jake King from @ainmean-aite.bsky.social will give a talk on Gaelic place-names in Edinburgh at the @natlibscot.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gaelic...

Red = lowest ecological integrity.

Ireland has the great honour of being probably *the* most ecologically trashed nation in all Europe. 🏆 🏆 🏆

Edinburgh Castle Rock vent basalts looking fine today in the morning sun 😍

Check out Edinburgh Geol Soc’s fab leaflet to learn more about the extinct volcano we have to thank for Edinburgh Castle being where it is!

edinburghgeolsoc.org/downloads/lb...

#edinburgh #geology #basalt #castle

This is Fudge. She may not be the sharpest pup in the world, but more importantly, she is not a quitter. 13/10

Really enjoying learning about space data! 🛰️

Some homework was to browse NASA’s Earth Observatory for interesting data, so I looked at Landsat 9 OLI-2 data for the Reykjanes peninsula eruption in November last year 🌋

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images

#spacedata #remotesensing #iceland #landsat

Having fun building a green space dataset of Edinburgh, using mostly OSM, OS + Edinburgh City Council open data 🌳💚 this includes trees, parks, golf courses + privately owned green space.

Spot the Murrayfield Stadium green to the middle left! 🏉

#greenspace #urbannature #edinburgh #maps

Having just discovered there is a #thicktrunktuesday, it would be plain rude not to get involved 😍🌳

Presenting a gorgeous old beech, who has lost a few limbs over its time watching over the fields.

Laptop sticker appreciation post! I don’t think I can ever hand this laptop back. It’s got my full coding journey to date on it plus some extras - CodeClan, GitHub, Esri, DevRel, Women Tech Makers, fuelled by various favourite coffee places 🤓👩🏻‍💻☕️

#laptopstickers #devlife #softwaredeveloper

Went for a winter tree ID refresher walk over lunch 👀

Sycamore has bark platelets/scales on its trunk, ranging from light pink to brown to light green (depending on lichen content). The just emerging buds are arranged in opposite pairs, and last years delicate flower stems may still be visible. 🌳