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Maps, apps and technology to make city life more fun – BBC News


BBC News

Maps, apps and technology to make city life more fun
BBC News
The helmet is the brainchild of PhD student Panos Mavros, from University College London’s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Casa). “The idea is to use techniques from neuroscience and computer science to better understand how people …
Headgear measures city stimulationBBC News

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AAG 2015 CFP: OpenStreetMap Studies: Research Perspectives on a Decade of OSM

Call for papers: OpenStreetMap Studies: Research Perspectives on a Decade of OSM Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting April 21-25, 2015 Chicago, Illinois Organizers: Alan McConchie, University of British Columbia Muki Haklay, University College London Since its founding in 2004, OpenStreetMap has grown into one of the pre-eminent open collaborative geographic knowledge projects online, growth […]

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GIScience Research Group

The GIScRG is a group of academics and practitioners interested in promoting GIScience and GITechnology in geographical research, teaching and the workplace. We  also support and promote e-science and the application of novel computing and spatial analysis paradigms to geographical systems, for example, agent-based modelling. We are currently sponsoring a number of sessions at the  … Continue reading GIScience Research Group

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Quantitative Geography as a Profession

The following case studies demonstrate: the widespread use of quantitative methods and GIS in the workplace and how quantitative skills can be employed to produce excellent student work across the discipline. Case Studies… Risk Insurance GIS and Mapping Environmental Sector Environmental Consultancy Humanitarian Sector Local Government Financial Sector Student Work Featured Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/churkinms/2582615161/sizes/o/ 

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Who commutes the most and who has all the science jobs? See how your British … – The Independent


The Independent

Who commutes the most and who has all the science jobs? See how your British
The Independent
LuminoCity3D was launched last Monday by Duncan Smith, an urban geographer from the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. It compares a number of indicators, such as the average education level of a city’s inhabitants, how many people own a car, …

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