Olive Powell 🌍 (she/her)

Today, I finally met in person my two co-founders and directors. 1️⃣st time since #WomeninGeospatial started 3 yrs ago! #celebration 🥂🥳 💜 @geospatialwomen

🚀We’re recruiting 3x Geo Analysts into my ONS Geo Branch!🎉 I’m genuinely excited about where this team is heading — modern pipelines, statistical geography design, automation at scale. Come and join us, Apply 👇 civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…⁠ #Geospatial #GIS #DataScience #jobs

This is the wrap up of our ONS #30daymapchallenge to boost the org #geoskills. #Geo and #NonGeo professionals took part with varying levels of #competencies. That's why we do it ! 🤓( With my added rule of promoting @ONS data at the same time!) 🗺️🎓 #skills #learn #inclusion

#30DayMapChallenge Day 30: Makeover... of the 1958-1974 2LUSB field maps into digital residential footprints, more useable in the digital age. A flavour of what can be done with machine learning to extract residential footprints for ONS’s Historical Censuses Digitisation Project!

#30DayMapChallenge Day 29: Raster. A map of the Lake District with the Ordnance Survey MiniScale raster, the National Park Boundary and ONS Output Area population weighted centroids available to download on the Open Geography Portal #GIS #Mapping #geospatial

#30DayMapChallenge Day 25. Hexagons. A hexagonal map of Middle-Super Output Areas (MSOAs) in England and Wales, showing Census 2021 population estimates of residents living in households or communal establishments.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Places and their names. Map showing distribution of Norse place name suffixes across Scotland, England & Wales. Based on ONS Index of Place Names (July 2024) & Country Boundaries. More info: geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/71a6d… #GIS #mapping #geospatial #geo

#30DayMapChallenge Day 26: Transport. Estimated reachable number of jobs across GB by modality 🚌🚗🚴🚶Built by combining ONS Business Register and Employment Survey data with travel time estimates at Output Area level. Watch ONS Local Presents here: vimeo.com/user99857619/r…

#30DayMapChallenge Day 23: Process. Which map would you choose? The ONS 'Geography and Statistics Training' provides guidance on the map-making process, as well as QGIS training and geospatial-specific courses for Python and R ➡️ onsgeo.github.io/geospatial-tra…

#30DayMapChallenge Day 1: Icons. Highest concentrations of parks and pubs are found in central London, reflecting the diverse recreational opportunities in the heart of the city. Explore the data for 'Access to local amenities in England and Wales 2024': ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

#30DayMapChallenge Day 22: Natural Earth 🌳🌊☀️ Terrain, Lakes and River networks of National Parks across Wales. #GIS #mapping #geospatial

#30DayMapChallenge Day 20: Water. This map shows the number of usual residents in England and Wales employed in fishing and aquaculture by Local Authority District. Data is from the 2021 Census #get-data" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ons.gov.uk/datasets/creat… #GIS #mapping #geospatial

#30DayMapChallenge Day 17: A New Tool. Experiment 3D rendering with Aerialod. Population density from ONS 2024 Population Estimates and Census 2021 Lower Super Output Areas; normalised to area, then rasterised to 1km grid.   #GIS #Mapping #geospatial

#30DayMapChallenge Day 12: Map from 2125 🔍🔮 What will the UK population be in the next 100 years? This time-series map uses 2022-based national population projections to show annual population change estimates up to the year 2122. Publication and data: ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

#30DayMapChallenge Day 13: 10-minute map⏳Once the data was downloaded, we set the timer and made this map of people who speak, read, and write Welsh. The data is from Census 2021 downloaded from the Nomis website (TS032 - Welsh language skills) nomisweb.co.uk/sources/census…

#30DayMapChallenge Day 14: OpenStreetMap. We ❤️OSM but here's our fun take on 'open streets'... An “open street map” in England. OS Open Roads data show the remote (open) road. Population weighted centroids emphasises the “openness” of the areas these roads pass through 🛣️

#30DayMapChallenge Day 15: Fire 🔥 In Wales, the highest percentage of households using 'wood only' or 'solid fuel only' for central heating is found in mid Wales, according to Census 2021 data (ONS dataset TS046) - ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS046…). #GIS #mapping #geospatial

#30DayMapChallenge Day 16: Cell. This map shows 1km grid cells across London MSOAs, with the percentage drop in modelled Nitrous Dioxide for each grid cell from 2014-2024. DEFRA’s UK AIR modelled air quality data: uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/modelling… MSOA boundaries: geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/12baf…

#30DayMapChallenge Day 11: Minimal. Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, and England — the countries of the UK. Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Open Geography Portal, December 2024 UK generalised clipped boundaries (BGC). Download here: geoportal.statistics.gov.uk #GIS

#30DayMapChallenge Day 9: Analogue ✏️ Paths Arthur the dog likes to travel on his daily walks, his favourite sniffing spots, rocks for hopping and houses where other dogs live. Included are the UPRNs of landmarks along the way (the RNLI station, Pubs, Rugby clubs and the beach).

#30DayMapChallenge Day 8: Urban 🏙️ This map shows the Rural Urban Classification (2021) for Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies (2024) in England and Wales. Check out the interactive web map on the Open Geography Portal: geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/maps/2d0cf9d43… #GIS #mapping #geospatial