The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
In the past I have written several pieces about Google, Google Maps and how its been pushing the boundaries of geography. The other day I was fortunate enough to attend a talk by John Bailey from Google’s Geo Education team when he was visiting Masons …
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In the past I have written several pieces about Google, Google Maps and how its been pushing the boundaries of geography. The other day I was fortunate enough to attend a talk by John Bailey from Google’s Geo Education team when he was visiting Masons …
Continue reading »The sessions today covered Civic technology, citizen science, and the new directions in mapping – Open Source/Crowdsourcing/Big Data First, Civic technology: governance, equity and inclusion considerations, with Pamela Robinson – Ryerson University (Chair) and Peter A. Johnson – University of Waterloo, Teresa Scassa – University of Ottawa and Jon Corbett – University of British Columbia-Okanagan. The Discussant is Betsy Donald – … Continue reading AAG 2015 notes – day 3 – Civic Technology, Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing and mapping
Today, OpenStreetMap celebrates 10 years of operation as counted from the date of registration. I’ve heard about the project when it was in early stages, mostly because I knew Steve Coast when I was studying for my Ph.D. at UCL. As a result, I was also able to secured the first ever research grant that focused […]
We recently contributed a chapter to Geocomputation (2nd edition) entitled “The Evolving GeoWeb”. What is interesting is the marked difference between the first edition (which was published in 2000) and the second. For example, in the latest edition, t…
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We recently contributed a chapter to Geocomputation (2nd edition) entitled “The Evolving GeoWeb”. What is interesting is the marked difference between the first edition (which was published in 2000) and the second. For example, in the latest edition, t…
Continue reading »Looking across the range of crowdsourced geographic information activities, some regular patterns are emerging and it might be useful to start notice them as a way to think about what is possible or not possible to do in this area. Since I don’t like the concept of ‘laws’ – as in Tobler’s first law of […]
At the end of 2010, Matt Wilson (University of Kentucky) and Mark Graham(Oxford Internet Institute), started coordinating a special issue of Environment and Planning Adedicated to ‘Situating Neogeography’, asking ‘How might we situate neogeography? What are the various assemblages, networks, ecologies, configurations, discourses, cyborgs, alliances that enable/enact these technologies?’ My response to this call is […]
A quick note for a new book entitled “Virtual Geographic Environments” from ESRI Press who write:”Virtual Geographic Environments, edited by Hui Lin and Michael Batty, collects key papers that define the current momentum in GIS and “virtual geographi…
Continue reading »A quick note for a new book entitled “Virtual Geographic Environments” from ESRI Press who write:”Virtual Geographic Environments, edited by Hui Lin and Michael Batty, collects key papers that define the current momentum in GIS and “virtual geographi…
Continue reading »GEMMA is the latest in a series of geospatial projects from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, here at University College London.
We are experiencing a massive explosion of online geospatial data from many new and unconventional sources fro…
BBC Look East is calling for people in the East of England to find out their home broadband speed, as part of the TV programme’s week-long special – using our free SurveyMapper tool, at CASA, University College London, to collate and map the results i…
Continue reading »Several months ago we (Suchith Anand, Michael Batty, Andrew Crooks, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Mike Jackson, Richard Milton, Jeremy Morley) where commissioned by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to produce a TechWatch horizon scanning repo…
Continue reading »Several months ago we (Suchith Anand, Michael Batty, Andrew Crooks, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Mike Jackson, Richard Milton, Jeremy Morley) where commissioned by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to produce a TechWatch horizon scanning repo…
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