The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
[Update – now including a much larger version.] Below is the image I submitted to this year’s UCL Research Images as Art exhibition. You can see it, and around 300 other entries, in the South Cloisters on the UCL campus … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Christmas Day this year recorded far and away the highest ever simultaneous usage of the Barclays Cycle Hire bikes, aka the Boris Bikes, probably meaning it was the biggest number of hires in a single day too. The lack of … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Now available on the Bike Share Map are five extra French cities: Montpellier, St Etienne, Calais, Valence and Vannes, as well as Kunshan in China. I’m also now showing the relaunched bike share in Rio de Janeiro – yes, you … Continue reading →
Continue reading »[Updated with new connections.] Ever thought what the tube network would look like if you took out the expensive Zone 1? Me neither, until this morning, when I was wondering if it was possible to utilise my current “Boris Bike” … Continue reading →
Continue reading »GEMMA is the project I’ve been working on for the last six months, it’s one of the JISCgeo projects and it is now released – although consider it to be beta as there are lots of bugs and UI quirks … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I was intrigued by this tweet that appeared in my Twitter client this morning: It’s one of those tweets that makes you go “That doesn’t sound right?” Is Tokyo really a third of the size of England? It generally takes … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I was at a talk last night organised by the Londonist – Magical Maps. It took place in the TAG Fine Arts‘ Air Gallery in Mayfair. TAG Fine Arts currently have an exhibition there – The Art of Mapping, and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Last week the government launched the Tech City map. It is not the first – there have been several previous maps, e.g. by the Guardian, of technology startups in the Old Street/Shoreditch area of London, but this is the highest … Continue reading →
Continue reading »A rather techy post from me, just before the Final Project Post for GEMMA (my current project at CASA) is submitted, summing the project and applications up. Why? I wanted to share with you two rather specialist bits of GEMMA … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The organisers of next year’s Olympic Games in London, LOCOG, have unveiled their map of the 1000+ places that the Olympic Torch Relay will pass through. The data that the map is built from is readily accessible (as a JSON … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’m currently using Munin to keep an eye on the various services running on my main server at UCL CASA. Munin is a monitoring package. It is simple to install (on Ubuntu, sudo apt-get install munin on your primary server, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »…when they were plotting this road in East London for Google Maps:
A quick look at the Google Maps aerial imagery confirms there’s something odd about that road kink:
Never fear, OSM is here:
Continue reading »About 6,600 according to the Mayor and cited in this Evening Standard article. But these include the bikes in storage, such bikes are not much help to people wanting to use them on the streets of the capital. A more … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I’ve added Lille and Bath to the Bike Share Map. Lille’s system, V’Lille, was soft-launched a few weeks ago, while Bike in Bath, a very small system run by Bicincitta, also launched recently. Bath’s uptake so far seems to have … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweet Following on from yesterday’s post about the forthcoming New York City bikeshare, I’ve created a mockup of how the scheme might look like on my Bike Share Map. The mockup uses the most popular locations voted for by people … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweet It’s been announced today that the Alta Bicycle Company will be operating the huge New York City bike-share that will be likely launching next summer. An informative press release reveals the area of the scheme, which will be slightly … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweet I’m a sucker for alternative maps of the London Underground, and here’s a great one – the Twisted London Underground Map by Francisco Dans (see the original in high-resolution on Flickr) – it’s perhaps not going to be useful … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweet James Cridland has created and is updating a map of verified reports of looting and rioting in London – and elsewhere. I much prefer this to another map which is automatically updated from postcoded tweets (similar to the UK … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetI was in the Loire region of France last week for a holiday. Unusually for me, a “proper” holiday – no international orienteering racing or mountaineering. Instead, a chance to be a real tourist, visit les châteaux and try a … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweet I was in Prague at the end of last month for the final OBIS Project meeting. OBIS was a multi-year European Commission project to study and document bike sharing systems in 10 countries in the European Union. The project’s … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweet At State of the Map EU I presented a preview of GEMMA, my current UCL CASA funded project, focusing particularly on the OpenStreetMap Feature Highlighter, that will be one of our key data sources – it being an OpenStreetMap … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TweetOne thing I noticed in Vienna, and passing through Brussels airport on the way home, was a number of “augmented reality” advertising displays, ones that detect people in front of them and then show that on their screens. In all … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Following on from my previous post – another reason I was particularly pleased to be in Vienna for State of the Map EU, was that Vienna has a bike share system! CityBikes has been around since 2003, it is run … Continue reading →
Continue reading »So – I was at the State of the Map EU (SotM) conference in Vienna last weekend – a European-focused conference on the OpenStreetMap project. I travelled with my colleague Steven Gray and presented some screenshots from the GEMMA project … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The website for Boston’s Hubway bike share launched today. No map of docking stations yet, but it is coming… [Update – map is here and the scheme launches on 26 July.] The bike share is due to launch at the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The website for Boston’s Hubway bike share launched today. No map of docking stations yet, but it is coming… The bike share is due to launch later this month and…
Continue reading »I presented a talk on web visualisation of Census data at a couple of of conferences last week – a seminar at the Market Research Society (MRS) in London on Monday, and an extended version at the Census 2011 Impact … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Spotted by Prof Michael Batty, our director here at CASA, while in Bath at the weekend: There is very little information on the scheme, on the Internet. As far as I can tell, it was announced as far back as … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Sense and the City exhibition at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden opens today, and runs until March next year. It includes a number of transport visualisations contributed by the team at UCL CASA, including a themed version of … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Daniel Lewis, a Geography Ph.D student at UCL, has produced this map of inner London, using multidimensional scaling (MDS) to simultaneously depict 41 geodemographic measures of each area.
Continue reading »Congratulations to Cycle Lifestyle, who have won £6000 in funding for “creating a colour coded Tube style map of the Capital’s cycling network” in the GeoVation Showcase event that took…
Continue reading »Readers may be interested in the London Mapping Festival, a grouping of several events relating to mapping in London, that takes place over the next year. The launch event is…
Continue reading »This is the Crumpled City Map of London. Part of a series, including New York, Paris and Rome, and produced by an Italian company, the unique feature of the map…
Continue reading »Charles Booth’s 1899 Poverty Map of London is a seminal work in the history of London maps and the development of geodemographics (characterising people based on where they live) which…
Continue reading »A map, tucked away on the GLA’s London Plan website, reveals graphically the legally “protected vistas” in London – generally views from certain parks in London of St Paul’s Cathedral…
Continue reading »MurderMap is a manually curated map of homicides in London, based on records from the Central Criminal Court, aka the Old Bailey. The map’s creators are building an online database…
Continue reading »I came across this map of London train lines and underground routes in 1948, part of a guide and travel-card given to competitors at last Olympic Games in London, in…
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