It turns out that I've been walking down a Roman road and past a Roman aqueduct every day, on the way to and from work. These are the things you learn from poking around in the SMR data too much. :)

Although they don't know for sure that the road went all the way down Aylestone Road. They've found the start of it, coming out of the city, but not much more. But the aquaduct is a funny shape, almost as if it's respecting some earlier feature. Like a road. And it's all pretty straight. And if it kept going it'd end up at a small Roman town to the south. Aaargh, I forget what it was called. Tripontium, I think. Yes, Tripontium.

It's interesting, really. I mean, when I lived in Evington I was walking along a Roman road then, too. The Via Devana. I only used to walk along the Evington footway part, but it goes all the way along New Walk. Which is what I walk down from the uni to get to the city centre.

Anyway, today was a little more bearable than yesterday. I managed to work out a few things, and I figured out how to make the GIS do a couple of bits that might be useful. The SMR uses MapInfo, although I think it's only v4.5, not the v7.0 that they're selling from their website. I've never used that GIS software. I've barely even used ArcView - there are plenty more practicals after the holidays! So... I was trying to figure out how to add metadata (data about data) into the SMR's mapping module. If you care. :p

Three Word documents later, here I am.

My boss was being really complimentary about me to the Education person who works in the same office. It was embarrassing..!

But nice. :D