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  Made my first web scraper. It works through pages of Ordnance Survey Name Book volumes and pulls them together as a csv file. There'll be better ways to do this but the main thing is that it works. (Optimisation tips welcome!)

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  I've put my scripts for scraping the Ordnance Survey Name Books up on github: https://github.com/dgplacenames/osnb

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  Our new project 'Ainmean Charraige/Carrick Names' is in full swing. Please spread the word, follow us on FB, and - if you're available on 14 Sept - come along to our conference on 'Carrick's Gaelic Heritage'. FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/954532863061564 Conference: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ainmeancharraigecarricknames/1196776/ #scotland #ayrshire #placenames #toponymy #history #gaelic

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  I'm raising money to buy - and then donate - a manuscript of the Scots poem The Galloway Herds. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bring-the-galloway-herds-to-galloway

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  5,800 Gaelic place-names in Ayrshire and the southern counties of Scotland that survived to be recorded by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th century.

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  Anyone able to help? Trying to get Leaflet.Control.Opacity working with the AllMaps plugin. Probably a trivial JavaScript fix, but it's beyond me: https://github.com/dayjournal/Leaflet.Control.Opacity/issues/29

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@holm_solar/117152222024954660 My solar panels are on Mastodon!