Month: November 2016

The Potential of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Future Transport Systems

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An aspect of collaborative projects is that they start slowly, and as they become effective and productive, they reached their end! The COST Energic (European Network for Research into Geographic Information Crowdsourcing) led to many useful activities, with some of them leading to academic papers. From COST Energic, we’ve got the European Handbook on Crowdsourced Geographic … Continue reading The Potential of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Future Transport Systems

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citizen science, COST ENERGIC, crowdsourced geographic information, Crowdsourcing, GIS, Papers, Research projects, Transport, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Smart Mobility Meeting in Mexico City

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Below is a presentation that combined my talks last Thursday and Friday at the Smart Mobility forums in central Mexico City, organised by ITDP Mexico and funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Prosperity Fund (respresented by the British Embassy in Mexico). The Thursday presentation focused on the third-party app ecosystem that exists around bikesharing … Continue reading Smart Mobility Meeting in Mexico City →

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Walk with Me Maps – Dalston & Stoke Newington

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This is one of seven London neighborhood maps, each drawn by different artists from the University of the Arts London and recently released by the Walk with Me project. This map, of Dalston and Stoke Newington in north-east London, was drawn by Martina Paukova. We like the distinctive shade of blue used for the map […]

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New paper: Associations for Citizen Science: Regional Knowledge, Global Collaboration

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When the new journal about Citizen Science established, one of the articles that the editorial team thought should be included is a paper that describe the development of associations dedicated to the practice of citizen science. There are now several of these: the Citizen Science Association (CSA), the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA), and the … Continue reading New paper: Associations for Citizen Science: Regional Knowledge, Global Collaboration

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Australian Citizen Science Association, citizen science, citizen science 2015, citizen science association, ECSA, European Citizen Science Association, Papers

Does your econ department care about new ideas?

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The Reteaching Economics network is a group of early-career economics teachers interested in moving the teaching of economics on from nonsense like this: to something a little bit more resembling the actual world which students expected to be finding out about when they signed up for an Economics undergraduate[1]. They are inspired by the incredible Rethinking … Continue reading “Does your econ department care about new ideas?”

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Review: London, The Information Capital

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Mapping London’s co-founder and “Editor at Large” Dr James Cheshire co-produced “London: The Information Capital” with Oliver Uberti in 2014. We mentioned the book on its initial release. The book has this month has now been published in a softback edition by Penguin, with some minor corrections applied. If you missed out on the book […]

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crime, crimes, data, Emotion, feelings, ghost, ghosts, grid, Information, information capital, Pac-man, Pacman

London: A World of Eating

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London: A World of Eating is a little map from Herb Lester – prolific producers of quirky pocket London maps with bespoke cartography (we recently featured their Punk London map). The map, which showcases some of London’s many interesting eateries featuring food from other countries, is sold out on their own website, but copies are […]

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BBC Good Food Show, competition, cuisine, eating, Events, food

Taxonomy of Web Mapping Frameworks

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Here’s an attempt to create a simple taxonomy of the currently active and popular web mapping frameworks available. This covers web mapping that delivers a consumer-navigable geographic “slippy” map of raster and/or vector tiles containing bespoke geographic data. Ecosystems Hosted Wrappers Managed Wrappers Managed APIs Open Frameworks Spatial Servers Server Programming MapBox Studio Carto Builder … Continue reading Taxonomy of Web Mapping Frameworks →

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