The latest outputs from researchers, alumni and friends at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).
From the Mapping London blog: Many Twitter messages, or “tweets”, are sent with latitude/longitude information, allowing an insight into the places where the most amount of tweeting happens. For a magazine article, I produced the above map of London, with … Continue reading →
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Continue reading »In the United States, Amazon customers are now buying more digital books than all paperback books. For every 100 print books Amazon sells, it pushes 105 Kindle books. Sales figures in the UK are quickly catching up, and Amazon this …
Continue reading »AxisMaps offers a new online historic maps page to cover Londons past. It is a great resource overlaying about 30 maps dated between 1800 and 1900, on a digital current map based on open street map data. The service allows for interaction with to zoom …
Continue reading »At the beginning of May, I gave a lecture at the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC) seminar titled ‘Interacting with Geospatial Technologies – Overview and Research Challenges’. The talk was somewhat similar to the one that I gave at the BCS Geospatial SIG. However, I was trying to answer a question that I was asked during […]
PGRG DISSERTATION PRIZES 2011 “Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize” This prize is named in memory of the daughter of Professor John Stillwell of the University of Leeds. Joanna, who was a geography graduate from the University of Sheffield, died in 2004. The Population Geography Research Group has set up three prizes (£100 for first prize; […]
Continue reading »Letters and signs are a fundamental part of communication and make it possible to transport information. It extends on the spoken words by enabling shifts in time. The information is conserved to some extend and can be transported.
Writing dominates …
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Traditionally Lidar is the method of choice to scann urban environments at large scale. Usually this is using an airborne method for scanning large areas using laser scanning technologies to build up large point cloud data sets to remodel the environme…
Continue reading »In March 2008, I started comparing OpenStreetMap in England to the Ordnance Survey Meridian 2, as a way to evaluate the completeness of OpenStreetMap coverage. The rational behind the comparison is that Meridian 2 represents a generalised geographic dataset that is widely use in national scale spatial analysis. At the time that the study started, […]
Dr Muki Haklay,UCL CEGE, has been carrying out some quantitative research into OpenStreetMap’s coverage in the UK, comparing road lengths in each square kilometre, with those in a definitive national dataset, Ordnance Survey Meridian 2. He’s updated his findings every … Continue reading →
Continue reading »## Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards [http://punkish.org/opengov/index.html] You are invited to attend a workshop titled [Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards][og] organized jointly by [Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla][hr], Horizon Digital Economy Research and [Puneet Kishor][pk], Creative Commons. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the annual [Open Source […]
Continue reading »Geneva is the Swiss city with the most important international connections. In Geneva a lot of international organisations have a headquarter such as UNO, WHO, UNHCR, ILO, WIPO and the Red Cross. But there are also other institution of international si…
Continue reading »QRator is a collaborative project between the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and UCL Museums and Collections, to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and academic researchers, to enhance museum interpretation, community engagement and establish new connections…
QRator is a collaborative project between the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and UCL Museums and Collections, to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and …
Continue reading »QRator is a collaborative project between the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (UCLDH), UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), and UCL Museums and Collections, to develop new kinds of content, co-curated by the public, museum curators, and …
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 »We have been working hard here at CASA lately, building tools to collect, analyse and visualise different data sets from all over the web. One piece of software that has proven quite popular over the past few months is our internal Twitter Collector. The collector mines Twitter for tweets inside a geographical radius either with […]
Continue reading »It hase come a bit out of fashion to build new cities. It sort of comes in waves or trends when suddenly a lot of cities are being planned and built, but then the ide dies out again. The Romans build a lot of cities, then it was quiet in Europe until t…
Continue reading »September 5th-7th 2011 Minority Internal Migration in Europe Conference University of Manchester, UK This conference will be a gathering of researchers interested in the internal migration of immigrants/ethnic minorities and will bring together leading scholars from across Europe to present original findings. We invite you to attend the event and join in discussions that aim […]
Continue reading »A month or so ago (again, trying to catch up here!) I spoke at the annual PLUG conference in London. As always, lots of very interesting talks about National Pupil Database applications and developments. All the talks are available on the PLUG website – link. My slides were as follows… Spatial Analysis Using the National […]
Continue reading »A bit of a dry post here, but I thought I’d share my experience of trying to get two instances of MySQL (and two different versions, to boot) running simultaneously on a single piece of hardware as I’ve spent the …
Continue reading »A month or so ago (again, trying to catch up here!) I spoke at the annual PLUG conference in London. As always, lots of very interesting talks about National Pupil Database applications and developments. All the talks are available on the PLUG website…
Continue reading »A nice timelapse bringing a three hour observation down to a gripping two minutes. It features on ly one scene, but the intensity of the cross road in view is quite fascinating. There is a vague eb and flow rhythm to it as a result of the stop and go t…
Continue reading »This workshop, titled “Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards” is organized jointly by Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research and Puneet Kishor, Creative Commons. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the annual Open Source GIS Conference, June 21, 2011, Nottingham, United Kingdom, and will be held at the School of […]
Continue reading »Milan based Mousse magazine is running a series with the title ‘Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating’. The editor of the series, Jens Hoffmann explains: “it emerged from a desire to trace the coordinates of contemporary curatorial practice, to take s…
Continue reading »Google presents fir the currently running I/O conference in San Francisco a new Google Chrome Experiment. The developers print a data globe for visualisation purpose. It’s an in-house production and is a sort of simplified Google Earth in black and whi…
Continue reading »A month or so ago my colleague Paul Longley and I ran a course for the National Centre for Research Methods on Geographical Data Visualisation and Geodemographics. The practical labs covered how you can code a set of postcodes by the Output Area Classification and how to generate a set of index score profiles from […]
Continue reading »A month or so ago my colleague Paul Longley and I ran a course for the National Centre for Research Methods on Geographical Data Visualisation and Geodemographics. The practical labs covered how you can code a set of postcodes by the Output Area Classi…
Continue reading »I’ve recently reported a very large blog from Blogger to WordPress. The blog has been around for many years, with around a thousand posts – most of which contain at least one image embedded in. The WordPress theme to be … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The Mousse magazine is running a series with the title ‘Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating’. The editor Jens Hoffmann explains: “it emerged from a desire to trace the coordinates of contemporary curatorial practice, to take stock of a profession tha…
Continue reading »Number 161 in the every growing CASA Working Paper Series is Building 3D Agent-Based Models for Urban Systems by A.T. Crooks, A. Hudson-Smith and A Patel in a collaboration between George Mason University, United States of America and here at…
Continue reading »Number 161 in the every growing CASA Working Paper Series is Building 3D Agent-Based Models for Urban Systems by A.T. Crooks, A. Hudson-Smith and A Patel in a collaboration between George Mason University, United States of America and here at Centre fo…
Continue reading »Number 161 in the every growing CASA Working Paper Series is Building 3D Agent-Based Models for Urban Systems by A.T. Crooks, A. Hudson-Smith and A Patel in a collaboration between George Mason University, United States of America and here at Centre fo…
Continue reading »GIS Research UK (GISRUK) is a long running conference series, and the 2011 instalment was hosted by the University of Portsmouth at the end of April. During the conference, I was asked to give a keynote talk about Participatory GIS. I decided to cover the background of Participatory GIS in the mid-1990s, and the transition […]
The Mousse magazine is running a series with the title ‘Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating’. The editor Jens Hoffmann explains: “it emerged from a desire to trace the coordinates of contemporary curatorial practice, to take stock of a profession tha…
Continue reading »I have fallen a bit behind on my blog as teaching activities have ramped up. However, over the next couple of days I will sort this out and post a couple of updates. The first of these is a talk I did at University of Oxford in April for one of their Retail Location Analysis […]
Continue reading »I have fallen a bit behind on my blog as teaching activities have ramped up. However, over the next couple of days I will sort this out and post a couple of updates. The first of these is a talk I did at University of Oxford in April for one of their R…
Continue reading »The architect Rafael Vinoly was born in Uruguay but lives and works now in New York. Actually the firm has offices across the network of important cities including London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Abu Dhabi. Surprisingly there is no Rafa…
Continue reading »Not quite sure which app to use to read and write your tweets? Well it is tricky and there are loads of options out there. Actually it has become a whole Twitter Ecosystem with apps growing into from everywhere, all aiming for the best place under the …
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…
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