The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
Here’s my 2017/2018 Ultimate Gift List for Map Lovers! All the recommendations are for products I own – or have seen – and can genuinely endorse. I’ve listed them under broad categories of people you might want to buy them for. Hopefully they cater for a range of map-related interests and budgets. Enjoy! For those who […]
Continue reading »I discovered this on ebay last week and had to buy it. Entitled “Illustrations in Chartography” it shows a series of different cartographic (or chartographic?) techniques used in the “School Atlas of Physical Geography” by Alex K Johnston. You can see the full book here. It’s too good not to share.
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Living Maps review is a new online journal about maps, map making and thinking of mapping (I’m on the editorial board of the journal). As the launch email describes: “map making as a democratic medium for visual artists, writers, social researchers and community activists. The journal has its roots in the highly successful series of … Continue reading Living Maps Review launched today
The last day of AAG 2015 is about citizen science and OpenStreetMap studies. The session Beyond motivation? Understanding enthusiasm in citizen science and volunteered geographic information was organised together with Hilary Geoghegan. We were interest to ‘explore and debate current research and practice moving beyond motivation, to consider the associated enthusiasm, materials and meanings of participating in citizen … Continue reading AAG 2015 – day 4 notes – Citizen Science & OpenStreetMap Studies
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Continue reading »Following my previous post I have been digging around archive.org for interesting spatial/ geographical related resources. A search for “geographic” yielded a number of back issues of the National Geographic Magazine. They date back as far as 1888 and contain some great images and maps. There are some real gems to be had, such as …
Continue reading »Naturally, as a Geographer the wikileaks release of facilities that the US believes critical to its security was interesting. Much like the chaps over at Floatingsheep some of us (Martin Austwick, James Cheshire, Peter Baudains, Alex Braithwaite) took it upon ourselves to map out the reported list. Martin came up with the following visualisation that […]
Continue reading »Wikileaks released the IED attack locations between 2004 – 2009. The Guardian have cleaned up the data and done some nice mapping here. Coinciding with the arrival of my new workstation and ArcGIS install I decided to do some mapping myself. I have put all these images in a slideshow: In addition I created this […]
Continue reading »One of the maps that I liberated from the great LSE clearout sometime ago was this visually pleasing and well balanced representation of the ratio of Females to Males from the 1961 Census. This kind of map has a specific story to tell, announcing that for a long time the women and men in the […]
Continue reading »There’s an increasing amount of useful packages that allow for spatial analysis in python. Having said that, actually drawing a map remains relatively tricky, here I am sharing a few of the methods that I have come up with recently to help in this area. Firstly, let’s consider the basic set of prerequisites that you […]
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