Cycling City Tensions
With a few notable exceptions such as Cambridge, cycling in UK cities is minimal compared…
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Crowd Sourced 3D Modelling?
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel CEO Paul Otellini demoed how the company’s processors are being used to render a 3D model from millions of user-generated images taken from photo-sharing sites such as Flicker and Picasa. We like …
Continue reading »7th Virtual Cities and Territories Lisbon
I will be at the 7th Virtual Cities and Territories conference in Lisbon today. The conference ihas six theme tracks Modeling for urban and spatial analysis, Sustainability, Urban Form and Urban Design, New Technologies in Architecture, Urban Design an…
Continue reading »Converting British National Grid to Latitude and Longitude I
EDIT: Andrzej Bieniek brought to my attention that this version is correct to 100m. For a more accurate script (accurate to 5m) see my new post. I have recently started to […]
Continue reading »LiDAR: Urban Caves Movie
The Nottingham Caves Survey is in the process of recording all of Nottingham’s 450+ sandstone caves. The movie below is in stunning detail based purely on a LiDAR scan capturing 500,000 survey points per second:
Head over to http://nottin…
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What a great idea:”The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify hundreds of the best scientists in Europe in a 10 year 1 billion EUR program to explore social life on earth and everything it relates to.”The movie below gives a nice overview of its a…
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What a great idea:”The FuturICT flagship proposal intends to unify hundreds of the best scientists in Europe in a 10 year 1 billion EUR program to explore social life on earth and everything it relates to.”The movie below gives a nice overview of its a…
Continue reading »Mapping Academic Tweets
Another day, another Twitter map- this time showing the global distribution of tweets that link to academic journal articles. I am always a bit skeptical of Twitter data (especially with location information) but as an academic seeking to publish in many of the journals that feature in people’s tweets I was prepared to make an …
Continue reading »FBX Exporters Part 2
In the first FBX exporter post I got to the point where the export of simple geometry from one of the Autodesk SDK examples could be loaded by the Quicktime plugin. This used the SDK as a multithreaded statically linked library which I used with one of the examples to create a plane object. The following […]
Continue reading »The Future of Augmented Reality (?)
The movie below provides a view on the future of Augmented Reality. We are big fans of augmented reality here at digital urban but someone we dont quite see it as the future. There is something that simply does not feel right within the general day to …
Continue reading »Earth 2.0
The whole ‘2.0’ thing has been slightly overdone, however Earth 2.0 is a really nice movie:
Take a look at the Earth 2.0 channel on YouTube for more movies…
Continue reading »Trendsmap Paints Twitter Maps
Twitter data is becoming a new rawmaterial for representing cities. Visualisations are being produced frequently. The latest addition comes from Trendsmap the online platform visualising emerging Twitter trends. The guys have produced visualisations fo…
Continue reading »Exporting Geographic Data in FBX Files
I’ve been looking at how to export the geographic information contained in a MapTube map into an art tool like 3DS Max or Maya. The reason for this is firstly to make it easier to produce high quality geographic presentations, but also, by employing a recognised art tool chain, we can also get the data […]
Continue reading »By: Andrew
This is what we call an advancement in technology. We can now track a train, a toy and a pet. Nothing is away from our reach. I am sure that this will again benefit in all walks of life.
Continue reading »Book – Tufte Visualisation Theory
Eduard Tufte is one of the key theorist on visualisation design and graphics communication. His books have sold extremely well and his concepts have been picked up by a lot of influential designers. He is quoted frequently in writings and has very larg…
Continue reading »So Just How Many Bikes are there in the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme?
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’m a science showoff!
On Tuesday I was lucky enough to take part in the first ever Science Showoff (sso), a science communication “open mic” night, where people can sign up to perform 10 minutes about pretty much any aspect of science – there … Continue reading →
PhD Thesis
I submitted my PhD thesis in January 2011, and was awarded the degree after my viva in March. You can see the thesis in in full by clicking on the…
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It is autumn, the leaves are falling and the sun stands low on the horizon. A great time with intensive colours, moody weather and the air feels heavier. Its time to wrap up and look back at the rest of a year that has passed. Wh not going back to spri…
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is a project led by ETH Zurich and UCL which deals with the simulation of highly interconnected coupled social systems characterised by extreme events and fast dynamics: i.e. things that go on in Cities. See it on Vimeo, explore the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Finally a Post – An Update on Digital Urban
Firstly apologies, the blog has been sat on the sidelines waiting for a post while i have been in a whirlwind of a three weeks. The good news is the blog is back, in short, we have been in the process recently of securing grants, launching a new Master…
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Continue reading »Some stuff on the London riots
In the past few weeks our mathmo team: Toby Davies, Peter Baudains and myself, have been looking into some of the reasons why the London riots happened. If we […]
Continue reading »Getting started with Python
This guide should give you a good overview of the packages you’ll need to download and install to start scientific programming using Python. First, Python itself. Python 2.7 is the latest…
Continue reading »V’Lille and Bike in Bath Online – Huge Lille Figures
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 »Winners of the 2011 Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize announced
This year we received 6 entries to the Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. These came from the Universities of Exeter, Southampton, Leeds, Nottingham, Durham and Liverpool. The dissertations underline the range of subjects covered by undergraduate population geographers, with topics including: Class and access to higher education Geography of attitudes towards alcohol consumption Growth and change of a New Town (Milton Keynes) […]
Continue reading »Location Based Library Concept
The spatial dimension of reading is an interesting aspect in so far as to how far it can actually become the main subject. A lot of narratives make extensive use of space and lace description and the location is often as important as the characters who…
Continue reading »Virtual Geographic Environments
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…
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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 »The Path Dependent City
Tweet Sometimes, we miss the best of articles … Complexity theory has found it hard to embrace policy as well as the other way round. Woodlief’s 1998 paper shows that it is not only routine development that generates path dependence … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Barratt Homes write National Planning Policy Framework
The UK government is seeking to dramatically overhaul the English planning system, releasing the National…
Continue reading »Advanced GeoSimulation Models
Advanced GeoSimulation Models edited by Danielle Marceau and Itzhak Benenson brings together a number of authors that highlight the the frontier in geosimulation in particular, and in cellular automata and agent-based modelling in general.Click here t…
Continue reading »Advanced GeoSimulation Models
Advanced GeoSimulation Models edited by Danielle Marceau and Itzhak Benenson brings together a number of authors that highlight the the frontier in geosimulation in particular, and in cellular automata and agent-based modelling in general.Click here t…
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Tweet Geosimulation is the term first used for modelling geospatial systems by Benenson and Torrens where the models in question focus on agents, objects, cells and patterns. Marceau & Benenson present a snapshot of the state of the art in … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Book – The Story of Architecture
Prestel has launched a new short series on the history of architecture focusing on a range of architecture styles. So far published are Romanesque Architecture, Renaissance Architecture, Gothic Architecture as well as Contemporary Architecture.The aim …
Continue reading »Trackernet: The Victoria Line
I’ve been meaning to look at TfL’s Trackernet API for a while now. It works through a REST based web service which gives access to all the London Underground running boards on a line by line basis. You issue an http request of the form: http://cloud.tfl.gov.uk/TrackerNet/PredictionSummary/V and the result is an XML file containing train information for […]
Continue reading »Digital Media – Alphaville Festival
This weekend from today the Alphaville Festival is under way providing a platform for digital media and art to be shown, discussed and explored across different venues in East London. It is the third year for this growing digital-media platform and thi…
Continue reading »New paper from me and the sad end of an era…
TweetYes, British migration classification fans, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for – publication of the CIDER Migration Classification paper! *Cue delirious cheering, whooping, hollering and cries of ‘get in the hole!!’* This most recent product of my blood, sweat and … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Classic Ordnance-Survey 1:25000 Map of London
The OpenStreetMap Out-of-Copyright (OOC) project aims t […]
Continue reading »Why Agent-Based Modelling?
Tweet Andrew Crooks notes the work of Doyne Farmer with Rob Axtell on ABMs for housing markets which pointed to an article by Rob on Why Agents? More on these ideas in our edited book Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems published by … Continue reading →
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