Rachael

Delighted to receive this welcome pack in the post from @bcsmaps.bsky.social after signing up as a member for the first time - look at all that map swag! 😍🗺️

20.01.2026 12:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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?

11.09.2025 20:09 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

How to integrate satellite imagery in mobile app development with Flutter Maps SDK Learn how to easily bring satellite imagery into your mobile app development using an image service and ArcGIS Maps SDK for Flutter.

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/...

30.06.2025 18:14 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

24.06.2025 08:15 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

A promo image for the Map of the Month Club. The text reads: "Map of the Month Club. Cartographic goodies delivered monthly. Brought to you by the good folks of the Independent Map Artists. Mapartists.org." Thumbnail images are seen, showing off a few different maps.

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-...

13.05.2025 16:44 — 👍 45    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 7

Faclan Nàdair Airson sùil a tho

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

12.05.2025 14:16 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

How to change the font size of Date Range text on Flutter's DateRangePicker Whilst working on my latest Flutter project, it took me a long time to figure out how to change the...

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...

13.05.2025 16:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

28.02.2025 09:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Diagram showing an example of a data race condition where two threads read simultaneously a variable, both change it, but only the last one writing is persisted

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

27.02.2025 12:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hand drawn map of Torridon area from the late 1500s. Lochs and rivers can be made out, along with rough sketches of mountain horizons marking the steep topography of the land in the are. A transcriber describes this as “The profile of some mountains, probably between Maree and Torridon, but hopelessly confused.”

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:

maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zo...

19.02.2025 13:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

12.02.2025 13:30 — 👍 33278    🔁 3159    💬 1472    📌 448

The Gaelic Place-Names of Edinburgh Learn how Gaelic has influenced the names of Edinburgh’s streets, landscape, and buildings.

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...

11.02.2025 11:58 — 👍 42    🔁 25    💬 3    📌 0

Red = lowest ecological integrity.

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

03.02.2025 06:42 — 👍 801    🔁 230    💬 65    📌 29

Edinburgh Castle ramparts resting directly above basaltic rock cliffs

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

30.01.2025 18:50 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

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

29.01.2025 00:18 — 👍 22974    🔁 1868    💬 575    📌 285

Four images of satellite data using different bands, taken above an erupting volcano in Iceland.

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

30.01.2025 12:40 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

29.01.2025 11:28 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Close up of the thick trunk of an old beech tree

An old beech tree in winter with a thick trunk and long branch limbs, some broken or fallen on the ground

Looking up from the ground into the tops of the bare branches of a beech tree, the sky blue behind

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.

28.01.2025 11:57 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

23.01.2025 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bark platelets/scales on a tree trunk

The tips of a bare sycamore tree branches photographed against a cold winter blue sky

Sycamore tree silhouette

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. 🌳

16.01.2025 16:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0