GIS and Mapping Blog from Ireland
The shortest route between two points on the earth is a great circle. This is a straight line on a globe, but ultimately looks like half-circle when projected.
Due to Helsinki Airports location, it is an ideal hub for East Asia travel. Starting at practically any European city and travelling to Far East Asia via Helsinki. The final route will almost be a straight line.
An updated version can be found at: Every Person in Scotland on the Map
One random point on the map for each person within a postcode in Scotland.
Workflow:
OS Code-Point Open points.
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Voronoi polygons from the postcodes.
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Join 2011 Scottish Census postcode population counts to Voronoi polygons.
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Clip the resulting polygons to the Scottish coastline (using PostGIS for time saving).
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Intersect the lakes out of the resulting polygons.
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Random point in polygon into the postcode Voronoi polygons (minus lakes), using the census counts.
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Output:
An easier approach would have been to use the NRS supplied postcode areas for Scotland mentioned in previous posts. A better display of this data would be through a web mapping environment, which is working on my home environment but lacking hosting.