Bruce Gittings
Thursday 19th February at 7:30pm
Queen Margaret Hall, 53 Blackness Road, Linlithgow EH49 7JA
Bruce presented the Gazetteer for Scotland, an interactive website with a vast underlying database, featuring details of towns, villages, bens and glens from the Scottish Borders to the Northern Isles.
The first comprehensive gazetteer produced for Scotland since 1885, it includes tourist attractions, industries and historical sites, together with histories of family names and clans, biographies of famous Scots and descriptions of historical events associated with Scotland.
The network of connections between all of these entries make this gazetteer unique. The project began in 1995 and has since grown to more than 100,000 web pages, the equivalent of around 30 novels!
Bruce is a Senior Lecturer in Geographical Information at the University of Edinburgh. His day job involves teaching on a Masters programme in GIS (computer geographical data analysis and map making). He is also Chair of the Association for Geographic Information in Scotland and a former Vice Chair of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.