Coast 2000 - time for a return ?

A couple of weeks ago I took a trip into the GA archives at Solly Street to hunt out some documents relating to the early use of computers in the geography classroom for a writing project (yes, another one) that I'm doing. I'll be blogging about that next week.... I found some excellent resources to use.

While I was down there I found two filing cabinets jam-packed with the grid squares for the LAND USE-UK survey of 1996. They have been there for years, and represent a huge potential resource to be revisited in the same way as the Domesday project has been...
Also in the same area I came across a booklet for the COASTLINE 2000 survey: the second of the great surveys, organised by Rex Walford.
This has some excellent ideas for data collection along the coast, and were used by survey teams. There is plenty of scope to brush the dust off this, and use it with a new generation...
A few of the new techniques and approaches, a spot of GIS, and this could be the basis for a whole new look at the coastline of the UK...

Image by Alan Parkinson