Showing posts with label Map. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Map. Show all posts

Thursday, September 25, 2014

Parish Family Tree

Long term readers of hebel will know of a slow, on going project to map the parishes of the Sydney Diocese.


View Sydney Diocese Parish Boundaries in a larger map

Partly this comes out of an appreciation of the Anglican parochial missiology. But it also comes from the present inaccessibility of parish maps. Well, related to this project has been an interest in the history of the formation of parishes in Sydney. Thanks largely to pre-existing family trees at St Philip's Church Hill and St Peter's St Peters, I've begun to compile a family tree of Sydney Anglican parishes. You might like to check it out below (click to expand):



Wednesday, November 18, 2009

International GIS Day

This week is Geography Awareness Week, and today (November 18) in particular is International GIS Day.

You're first reaction to this might be "What is GIS?". According to wikipedia: "In simplest terms, GIS is the merging of cartography and database technology." I only know because I'm married to someone who once regaled with stories about GIS fun at uni. Alison now uses GIS regularly at work and was so excited about today that she baked a cake.

Anyway, all of this was kind of a rationale for me to post this classic clip from The West Wing about maps:



UPDATE: Here is Alison's post on International GIS Day

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Sydney Parish Boundaries Continued

My project to map the parish boundaries in the Sydney Diocese is progressing, albeit ever so slowly.


View Sydney Diocese Parish Boundaries in a larger map

Although I have heard that Anglicare have been working on this project. If anyone is interested I also have a sketchy map outlining the regions of the Sydney diocese and most diocesan boundaries in NSW.


View CMS-NSW Regional Borders in a larger map