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Call for papers for themed sessions at the 6th International Conference on Population Geographies

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The IGU Commission on Population Geography plans once again to sponsor and actively promote some themed sessions at the bi-annual international population conference to be held in Umeå, Sweden in 2011. The Commission proposes three themed sessions linked to the commission’s core interests in ‘Population and Difference’ and ‘Population and Vulnerability’. A. Population and Difference […]

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Announcements/ News, call for papers, Conference, Conferences, population

Spatial Design for GP Consortia?

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The government is set to release a bill detailing how it is they expect the proposed GP Consortia to work. GP Consortia, groups of GPs working together, are set to replace the current structure of Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) as the mechanism through which primary healthcare is provided to the […]

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GIS, GP Consortia, Health Geography, NHS, pysal, Thoughts, zone design

RGS-IBG Session on Diversity in transitions to adulthood and implications for residential mobility

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RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011 London, 31st August to 2nd September CALL FOR PAPERS Diversity in transitions to adulthood and implications for residential mobility Convenors: Nissa Finney (University of Manchester) and Naomi Tyrrell (University of Plymouth) Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group Migration has long […]

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adulthood, Conferences, demography, Families, lifecourse, migration, mobility, PGRG, Youth

Opendata+R+Google = Easy Maps

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The release of the R package “googleVis” has made the production of interactive maps through Google’s Chart Tools a simple task. Ignoring the some basic data manipulation the below map was produced with these two lines of code: library(googleVis) Geo=gvisGeoMap(Map, locationvar=”Country”, numvar=”Percentage”, options=list(height=350, dataMode=’regions’)) plot(Geo) This map, although simple to produce, is nontrivial as it […]

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Google Chart Tools, Map Making, opendata, R, R Maps, Visualization

How Many Volunteers Does It Take To Map An Area Well? The validity of Linus’ law to Volunteered Geographic Information

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The paper “How Many Volunteers Does It Take To Map An Area Well? The validity of Linus’ law to Volunteered Geographic Information“ has appeared in The Cartographic Journal. The proper citation for the paper is: Haklay, M and Basiouka, S and Antoniou, V and Ather, A (2010) How Many Volunteers Does It Take To Map […]

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Geographic information system, Linus' Law, OpenStreetMap, OSM, Research projects, Spatial Data Quality, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

EveryAware – Enhanced environmental awareness through social information technologies

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EveryAware is a three-year research project, funded under the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project’s focus is on the development of Citizen Science techniques to allow people to find out about their local environmental conditions, and then to see if the provision of this information leads to behaviour change. The abstract of the […]

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citizen science, Environmental information, EveryAware, GIS Usability, OpenStreetMap, Research, Research projects, Usability, VGI

Population Footprints – UCL & Leverhulme Trust Symposia

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Population Footprints 25-26 May 2011, The Mermaid Conference Centre, London EC4V 3DB 1st Announcement & Call for Poster Abstracts www.populationfootprints.org We would like to bring to your attention this major UCL and Leverhulme Trust symposium on human population growth and global carrying capacity to be held in London on Wednesday 25 & Thursday 26 May 2011. The symposium will […]

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ageing, carrying capacity, climate change, Conference, Conferences, development, energy, Environment, Events, footprints, gender inequalities, global warming, overpopulation, policy, population, population dynamics, population growth, population size, University College London

Mike Goodchild’s NSF talk ‘From Community Mapping to Critical Spatial Thinking’

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Interesting talk from Mike Goodchild in a lecture at the US NSF entitled ‘From Community Mapping to Critical Spatial Thinking’. This talk is a good overview of VGI and links it to the understanding of spatial concepts and integrating them into teaching and research. The interesting issue raised in the talk is the link between […]

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GIS, Mike Goodchild, SOTM, VGI

RGS Session: Early Careers Research in Quantitative Geography and Geographic Information Science

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The QMRG is pleased to be co-sponsoring a session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011 with the GIScRG on: Early Careers Research in Quantitative Geography and Geographic Information Science. It is convened by James Cheshire (GIScRG) and Alex Singleton (QMRG). The abstract is as follows: The data and tools that are used for analysing, visualising […]

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Early Careers, Events, GIS, IBG, Postgraduate, Quantitative, RGS

Call for Papers – Journal of Spatial Information Science Special Edition

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Click here for FULL DETAILS. The term “Open Data” refers to the philosophical and methodological approach to the democratization of data enabling citizens to access and create value through the reuse of public sector information. Today, Open Data is gathering momentum and forms part of a global movement linked to Open Access and comparable to […]

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call for papers, Open Data, Special Edition

Call for papers – 6th International Conference on Population Geographies

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14- 17 June 2011, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden Deadline for abstract submission 20th of February 2011 We are happy to invite you to the Sixth International Conference on Population Geographies, to be held at the University Campus in Umeå, Sweden June 14th to 17th. Although designed for geographers, contributions are welcome from those who would not […]

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Announcements/ News, call for papers, Conference, Population Geography

Call for papers – JoSIS journal special issue Open Geographic Information

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Journal of Spatial Information Science (JoSIS) CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Feature on Open Geographic Information Guest editors:  Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research, Nottingham University and Professor Paul Longley, Department of Geography, University College London. Call for papers This special feature aims to bring together some of the key developers, academics and writers on […]

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Announcements/ News, data, Digital Economy, Geographic Information, GIS, Journals, Nottingham University, Open Data, University College London

Prof. Douglas Massey Symposium at UCL Global Migration Network

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UCL GLOBAL MIGRATION NETWORK SYMPOSIUM Prof. Douglas Massey (Princeton University) Post-Modern Segregation in the United States: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences in the 21st Century Discussant: Prof. Ceri Peach (University of Oxford / University of Manchester) 13 January 2011 – 17:30-19:00 (followed by reception) Venue: Darwin Lecture Theatre,  UCL Darwin Building,  Malet Place,  London, WC1E 7JG [Map] Book […]

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Asians, Blacks, ethnicity, Events, Hispanics, Housing, inequalities, Princeton University, race, Residential Segregation, segregation, U.S.

Representing Populations: a Spatial Ecology

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A subtitle to this post might also be: Are we all being mislead by the New York Times? In stating this I am referring to the recent maps released by the New York Times looking at ethnic distributions from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. The most immediate thing we can learn about this […]

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choropleth, dasymetric, dot density, new york times, Representation, Thoughts, uncertainties

Call for Papers – Early Careers Research in Quantitative Geography and Geographic Information Science, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011

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Abstracts are invited for a session at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers conference 2011. The conference runs between 31st August – 2nd September 2011; the exact date of this special session is to be confirmed. The session is jointly hosted by the GIScRG and Quantitative Methods Research […]

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Annual Conference 2011, call for papers, Conference Session, GIS, RGS IBG, Special Session

Call for Papers – Open Geographic Information, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011

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Abstracts are invited for a session at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers conference 2011. The conference runs between 31st August – 2nd September 2011; the exact date of this special session is to be confirmed. The session is hosted by the GIScRG, and will be chaired by […]

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Annual Conference 2011, call for papers, Conference Session, GIS, opendata, RGS IBG, Special Session

Call for Papers – Healthy Living Environments and Behaviour, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011

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Abstracts are invited for a session at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers conference 2011. The conference runs between 31st August – 2nd September 2011; the exact date of this special session is to be confirmed. The session is jointly hosted by the GIScRG and the Geography of […]

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Call for Papers – The Landscape of Tourism, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2011

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Abstracts are invited for a session at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers conference 2011. The conference runs between 31st August – 2nd September 2011; the exact date of this special session is to be confirmed. The session is jointly hosted by the GIScRG and the Geography of […]

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Annual Conference 2011, call for papers, Conference Session, Landscape, Presentations, RGS IBG, Special Session

Some Thoughts on the US Critical Facilities List

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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 […]

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Cartography, critical, facilities, Geography, geopolitics, map, Thoughts, wikileaks

Workshop: geo-referencing, geo-demographics, postcodes and classifications

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Workshop on geo-referencing, geo-demographics, postcodes and classifications University of Cardiff,  18 February 2011 Census.ac.uk are hosting a free workshop at the University of Cardiff for anyone working or studying in UK academia. This workshop will introduce participants to the use of postcodes and other area classifications, including the commercially-used Mosaic data and the ONS Output […]

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classifications, Events, geo-referencing, geodemographics, GIS, postcodes, University of Cardiff

New Clickable OAC Map

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Researcher Oliver O’Brien at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) has just published a new version of the national OAC Map to Maptube. This is now enhanced with Group labels, along with clickable details on each Ouptut Area. Many thanks Ollie! Map is available here.

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2010 Family Spending report: Household Expenditure by OAC

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The 2010 Family Spending report is available here and presents a series of interesting OAC profiles. “The supergroups with the highest expenditure are supergroups 2 (city living) and 4 (prospering suburbs), spending an average of £457.90 and £454.10 per week, respectively, followed by supergroup 3 (countryside), with expenditure of £433.70. Supergroup 5 (constrained by circumstances) […]

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