Weeknotes: 9th November 2026

Habitat map work On the habitat map work I went back to the input stages again, and actually did a bunch of data-spelunking. This meant quite a few days of just looking at dots on maps and asking why is that dot that colour and another another colour, the colour being the assumed habitat at that point from species obsevations. OSM with occurrencesSatellite with occurrences This lead to a bunch of discoveries and then improvements in how I'm trying to clean up the species occurrence data. I say improvements, but let's quantify that a little in a moment after I say what I did. Firstly, I'm mapping species occurrences to IUCN Redlist habitat classes, and thus far I've been treating a species' habitat preferences the same, but the red list does actually classify some of them as "suitable" and some as "marginal" and I could see a few instances where the marginal values were the cause of a lot of our urban creep: many species have urban as marginal. So I removed the marginal preferences for…

Commenting on Bubbles has been removed. Why? If you want to talk about this post, write to the author, use the comments on their blog if it has them, or reply with a "RE:" post on your own blog. Suggestions? feedback@bubbles.town