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The long-overdue revamp in April 2009 was the site's first overhaul since 1999. Ten years ago I planned to write several more articles to follow the first two. The launch of the Database of British Hills in September 2001 changed all that; such was its success that most of my effort has gone into maintaining and expanding the database with my co-authors. The new structure reflects the database's position at the core of the site. Currently it is in version 11.3 and is maintained by an editorial team of six.

A long-term aim of the team is to harmonise the sources of hill data on the web. As a first step, the Hills Database and www.hill-bagging.co.uk now share the same data and are updated in parallel. The majority of other bagging websites take their data from the Hills Database, though they may not always use the latest release.

The weather page was originally created for my own convenience and is unconnected to any statistical topic, unless you're interested in the hit rate (it's strongly periodic, peaking at around 200 on a Thursday). However the page gets 60% of the site's hits so it's here to stay.

Chris Crocker

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Beinn Dearg Mor from Beinn Dearg Bheag
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