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WelcomeThis website was created for those interested in statistics and statistical topics pertaining to the British hills: measurement, classification, lists and data.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. 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. The most recent change to the site is the release of version 11 of the Database of British Hills on 22 June 2009. This is a major upgrade, with nearly 2000 new hills and additional fields recording drop, col height and col location. We have expanded the editorial team to cope with the additional work involved in creating and maintaining the enlarged database. Simon Edwardes has created a new relational version in Access which is offered alongside the previous formats. A long-term aim of the team is to harmonise the sources of hill data on the web. As a step in this direction, the Hills Database and www.hill-bagging.co.uk will in future share the same data. Several other bagging websites already take their data from the Hills Database, though they may not always use the latest release. Chris Crocker
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Updated 3 July 2009
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