British Geological Survey

The British Geological Survey is responsible for advising the UK government on geoscience and providing impartial advice to industry, academia and the public.

Refactoring web GIS map components

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The problem:

Switching from NVM to Volta

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The problem Developers using WSL as their established environment have no issue switching between Node versions using nvm, whereas this operation requires admin rights for Windows users running outside of WSL.

Migrating from NPM to PNPM

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PNPM has been touted as a more performant and reliable replacement for NPM, aiming to reduce slow build times and eliminate issues with dependency mismatches. I primarily investigated PNPM as a way of speeding up the ...

Web based 3D geological model viewer

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BGS’s 3D geological model viewer provides on-demand generation of images of synthetic borehole log, vertical section and horizontal slices as outputs from selected 3D geological models. These are made available throug...

Static Code Analysis with SonarQube

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Static Code Analysis with SonarQube The use of static code analysis tools can help developers identify code quality issues and security vulnerabilities early in the software development lifecycle, and so helps in the ...