The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
The most stupidly named database management system is, sadly, also the system of choice for my research group, the powers that be having apparently no interest in the fact the you can’t pronounce the name, can’t remember how to write … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Go Pro HD Hero is one of the best timelapse cameras out there for 24 hour imagery, its wide angle lens, the ability to power via USB and mount on an outside facing glass window via its suction cup makes it easy to set up and leave. The camera copes well with changes in […]
Continue reading »CASA has a new EU (FP7: Future and Emerging Technologies) project called EUNOIA which is about Evolutive User-centric Networks fOr Intraurban Accessibility. The project will run from October 1st 2012 and is worth 268K Euros. It is part of a … Continue reading →
Continue reading »What have the Olympics got to say about social justice and health inequalities? CrikeyIf the Olympic Games can be used to promote anti-health industries, then why can’t they be used to promote discussions about human rights, social justice a…
Continue reading »What have the Olympics got to say about social justice and health inequalities?Crikey (blog)Lives on the line: Work by the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis is depicting child poverty and inequality like a London tube map, where a year in life e…
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On the 4th and 5th August, Portland, OR, was the gathering place for 300 participants that came to the workshop on Public Participation in Scientific Research. The workshop was timed just before the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, and therefore it was not surprising that the workshop focused on citizen science […]
We like this more than we should, the thought of going from ArcScene to a 3D Colour Hologram for public participation in planning seems light years away from the traditional setup: The concept also works via SketchUp and other 3D software, below is a 3D holographic print of Downtown Seattle: Head over to http://www.zebraimaging.com/ to create […]
Continue reading »We have updated our live weather page to work with the iPad/iPhone and other HTML compatible browsers. The page updates every 3 seconds with a live feed from a Davis Vantage Pro 2 on the roof of 1-19 Torrington Place, just off Tottenham Court Road in London. For those with the new iPad we have a […]
Continue reading »The majority of city timelapse movies we have featured are captured from a fixed point. Of course if you are on board a ship and heading into one of the most vibrant cityscapes in the world you can go one step further: Arriving to NY (Enhanced) from H. Caesar on Vimeo. The movie was created […]
Continue reading »The latest in the digital urban tutorial series is available as a downloadable .PDF, it looks at exploring applications for physics engines in urban modelling, the first step of which is a series of techniques to introduce gravity and mass to urban models. We produced a tutorial back in 2009 using ‘Reactor’, Autodesk no longer use this […]
Continue reading »This year I have mostly been mapping country names from data sources found online to ISO3 country codes which are actually useful for something. The continuing proliferation of data sources whose only country indicator is something like “Virgin Is. (UK)” … Continue reading →
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Above is an extract from a map of the London Undergroun […]
Continue reading »Work is starting this week at the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) in Leeds on preparing the Flexible Modelling Framework (FMF) for release under an open source licence. The FMF so far includes the following capabilities: microsimulation (using simulated annealing); spatial interaction modelling and agent-based modelling. The idea behind the framework is to …
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Ok. Well maybe they aren’t. But I recently gave it a good bash at a stand-up comedy routine for UCL’s brightclub. The night is a sort of academic variety night, […]
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Digital Urban is moving from blogger, over the next few hours the domain will point to a new server hosting us on a WordPress system.
Digital Urban 2005
Its been a blast, with over 1900 posts dating from 2005 and 3000+ comments, it equates to rough…
Continue reading »Sometimes a plugin comes along which changes your life. Fast SQL Layer from Pablo T. Carreira is just such a plugin. It allows you to execute arbitrary SQL queries against your underlying database, meaning that views and queries can now … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’ve managed to get some data onto my PostGIS database, and have got my first visualisation result. Since the aid dataset is large (c. 1,000,000, source: aiddata.org, the dataset is called ‘aid data 2 short’) I’ve summed over donors and … Continue reading →
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We are working on a new look at digitalurban, at the moment its very much in its beta phase with the move away from blogger and into wordpress. The move allows us to set up a range of new features and portfolio type pages, for example if you click on…
Continue reading »We have a new look at digitalurban, at the moment its very much in its beta phase with the move away from blogger and into wordpress. The move allows us to set up a range of new features and portfolio type pages, for example if you click on ‘tutorials’ or any of the scrolling images […]
Continue reading »The day is upon us! Yes, today we announce the results of The Science Songwriter of the Future! competition that we’ve been running over the summer. And those right there are the medals – lovingly crafted by Lynn at Tuck … Continue reading →