Someone’s Mouse Slipped
…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:
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Population Growth – a Problem of Scales
Population Growth – a Problem of ScalesThe end of October has according to the UN office for statistics officially marked the population growth reached 7billion. This is seven billion individuals living on planet earth, an astonishing number. On Octob…
Continue reading »BitCity
BitCity tomorrow (3rd November) at Columbia (NYC). Click left for my presentation on Cities as Flow Systems. Talks about CASA’s Oyster Card, Bikes, Networks, and LUTI model projects and how they can be used to look at fractured networks. Thanks … Continue reading →
Continue reading »I Look and Move
Below is a stop-motion animation captured in Moscow, it lasts for 1 minute 30 seconds and consists of 1072 images. You see only feet in the clip with images captured at the level of the human eye. Frames were prepared by hand and all the scenes were sh…
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Below is a stop-motion animation captured in Moscow, it lasts for 1 minute 30 seconds and consists of 1072 images. You see only feet in the clip with images captured at the level of the human eye. Frames were prepared by hand and all the scenes were sh…
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity 2011-11-02 19:40:14
The last lecture! – you can download from Lecture 8 above or by clicking the icon left. This lecture does not quite do what I intended but reworks an earlier lecture of mine on land use transportation models focussing on … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Travel Guidebook
Augmented reality (AR) applications have the potential to change the city experience by overlaying the digital information on the physical environment. Yujin Yin a student on the MA Digital Media at Gildsmiths Univversity of London asks, what is the
Continue reading »Augmented Reality Travel Guidebook
Augmented reality (AR) applications have the potential to change the city experience by overlaying the digital information on the physical environment. Yujin Yin a student on the MA Digital Media at Gildsmiths Univversity of London asks, what is the
Continue reading »Robots of Brixton
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting …
Continue reading »How big is your society?
The “Big Society” features as a key part of the coalition government’s legislative programme, aiming to decentralise control of public services and to empower local communities to manage and deliver services that better meet local needs. Over the past twelve months I have been involved in an AHRC Funded Connected Communities project involving researchers at […]
Continue reading »Low-Cost Mapping and Publishing Methods for Landscape Architectural Analysis and Design in Slum-Upgrading Projects
Future Internet carries on the theme of web based mapping with its latest publication by Paar, P.; Rekittke, J. Low-Cost Mapping and Publishing Methods for Landscape Architectural Analysis and Design in Slum-Upgrading Projects . Future Internet 2011, 3…
Continue reading »SketchUp/3D Max and Mental Ray: School of the Future
7am and rummaging around Vimeo we stumbled upon work by Ramy Hanna, his work on the School of the Future is simply inspiring:
The entire model was made using SketchUp with rendering via an import into 3DMax and Metal Ray, final edits were made…
Continue reading »How big is your society?
The “Big Society” features as a key part of the coalition government’s legislative programme, aiming to decentralise control of public services and to empower local communities to manage and deliver services that better meet local needs. Over the past …
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity 2011-11-01 02:50:49
Click left for the lecture or above on Lecture 7. More on entropy and information here, and I rework some of the material of Lecture 6. Note the random collisions model and run Chen’s online movie and have look at … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Timelapse: Urban
Shot on a Bolex with intervalometer, this sampling from Chris Scarafile’s time lapse library reflects the blur and momentum of modern city living:
We really like a) the feel of the clip and b) the fact that it was shot using a Bolex….
Continue reading »Tool or Toy? Virtual Globes in Landscape Planning?
Future Internet has published – Schroth, O.; Pond, E.; Campbell, C.; Cizek, P.; Bohus, S.; Sheppard, S.R.J. Tool or Toy? Virtual Globes in Landscape Planning. Future Internet 2011, 3, 204-227.
Virtual globes, i.e., geobrowsers tha…
Continue reading »Bright Club: Stars
On November 11th I’m lucky enough to be performing at Bright Club: Stars, the Bloomsbury EXTRAVAGANZA. I’ve performed at Bright Club more than once, in the cozy confines of the Wilmington Arms and at the Green Man festival (in a … Continue reading →
Ravenstein’s Flow Map
Amazing what you discover when you search the web. Couldn’t find Ravenstein’s 1888 map that Waldo Tobler sent me as a detailed scan. Its framed in my room at UCL and somewhere on the web I know. What I did … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity 2011-10-28 22:28:00
The icon left is rather appropriate for Arizona and the wild west, don’t you think. Entropy is increasing as we head towards the end of the course. The sixth lecture deals with our third form of scaling, scaling with space, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Passcode view controller
Need to protect something with a passcode in an iPhone app you’re developing? Then you may find my MIT-licensed passcode view controller — as seen in the mappiness app and in the short screencast below — of use. See Github for the code and (scant) documentation. Download video as MP4, WebM, or Ogg.
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity 2011-10-28 02:14:24
This entry goes to the CASA blog aggregator so those viewing it will be getting a blow by blow account of each lecture as I post it. As I don’t lecture much in CASA, at least it shows when I am … Continue reading →
Continue reading »A New Map of London Peculiars
We were delighted to receive a copy of this rather bril […]
Continue reading »IBM Smarter Cities Challenge
In 2010, IBM Citizenship created the Smarter Cities Challenge to help 100 cities over a three-year period to address some of the critical challenges facing cities. They do this by contributing the time and expertise of their experts from different busi…
Continue reading »Augmenting a Roman Fort: A Paper Model, IPad and Unity
Stuart Eve here at The Bartlett’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis has posted an update on his PhD research looking at augmenting archaeological sites. Before moving onto the real world he has built a proof of concept based on a…
Continue reading »FBX Exporters Part 4
In the previous three parts, I outlined the plan for getting geometry from MapTube via C Sharp into an FBX file using the C++ SDK provided by Autodesk. This final part shows data in a world map exported from MapTube and imported into 3DS Max. The above image shows the world countries 2010 outline from […]
Continue reading »CALL FOR SESSIONS RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012
Population Geography Research Group RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012 – University of Edinburgh – 3rd to 5th July 2012 The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) is seeking to sponsor 12 sessions at the 2012 RGS-IBG Annual Conference. PopGRG session sponsorship was oversubscribed in 2011, and the number of sessions at the 2012 conference will be more limited. We are therefore seeking proposals for high quality sessions, with innovative […]
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity 2011-10-25 01:16:48
You can now download the fourth lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 4, or click the icon to the left of this post. This lecture continues the first kind of scaling based on size distributions focussing on names, high … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Why do we need a census?
Last week I attended a “Beyond 2011” Census event organised by the Prof. Dave Martin and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The attendees came from central and local government, private companies that utlise census data, and a few universities. The majority there (based on an approximate straw poll) believed that there would not be a …
Continue reading »3D London: Google Earth
With recent developments here in CASA we somehow managed to miss the addition of automated 3D models into Google Earth for London. The mix of hand made and we presume LiDAR derived models is stunning with resolution down to modelling the chimneys&…
Continue reading »Interdisciplinarity is hard
Since the end of September I’ve been busy with CASA’s new MRes course, teaching, organizing, planning like a good lecturer does. The MRes, in keeping with the research themes of CASA, is a highly interdisciplinary affair – drawing upon techniques … Continue reading →
Book – Living in the Alps
The Alps as a place for living has a log tradition as an influential source shaping specific typologies and buildings. The specific conditions of the environment but also the very special atmosphere impact on both the design and the realisation of proj…
Continue reading »Spatial Complexity 2011-10-23 14:05:06
You can now download the third lecture from the Menu Item above, Lecture 3, or click the icon to the left of this post. This lecture focuses on the first kind of scaling which pertains to city size distributions. We look at … Continue reading →
Continue reading »GeoMason Examples
GeoMason has recently been updated to support changes to MASON itself and I have contributed a few models to highlight the basic functionality of GeoMason and act as examples for how geographically explicit models can be built. Below are some of…
Continue reading »GeoMason Examples
GeoMason has recently been updated to support changes to MASON itself and I have contributed a few models to highlight the basic functionality of GeoMason and act as examples for how geographically explicit models can be built. Below are some of…
Continue reading »Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds – The Independent
Turn orange peel into plastic? It’s not as crazy as it sounds The Independent
Continue reading »Urban Trees: London
A short yet somehow eye opening clip that should make anyone living in London wondering why this is not already part of our infrastructure:
Created by Hixon Design, a company providing green solutions for awkward spaces, we can see a f…
Continue reading »Audi Urban Future and a Smile
The Audi Urban Future Summit focused on the question of energies and forces that will shape future cities. Visionary ideas and research by experts on the development of new forms of urban mobility were in the center of the discussions. All well and goo…
Continue reading »Agile Ethics for Massified Research and Visualization
The advances in online data mining and the rising popularity of online social networking data is posing challenging questions in regards to ethics and privacy. How can academic research provide a comprehensive framework to secure data management and gu…
Continue reading »Space Syntax to GIS Integration: A Roadmap
Something I have been thinking about recently is the possibility of integration between GIS and space syntax. The motivations are very clear. Space syntax represents a compelling quantitative model of human behaviour and movement. W…
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