Smart Cities, Data, Modelling and Visualisation from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
As part of work on the JISC funded National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation project, CASA has put online 145 census maps. Running within the MapTube system, each map can be mixed and matched with any other map to create unique overlays. The system was developed as a quick and easy…
At the moment here at CASA we are working on a phase one deliverable of a new grant entitled NeISS – National e–Infrastructure for Social Simulation. Funded by the JISC as part of its Information Environment Programme it will provide a platform to meet the demand for powerful simulation tools…
Over at the GENeSIS blog Richard Milton of CASA has put up a sneak preview detailing some of the functionality of the latest GMapCreator. Traditionally clickable maps have been built using a server and database to translate the click on the client into a geographic area using point in polygon…
In recent weeks the level of expenses claimed by Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom has been hitting the headlines. Thanks to MapTube here at CASA it is now possible to view a map of the UK detailing MPs’ expenditure from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008, the…
With a slightly different hat on from our normal urban visualisation work we also run our National Centre for e-Social Science grant here at CASA. One of the biggest successes of the grant has been MapTube which is based on our GMap Creater software developed by Richard Milton here in…
At the moment we have two geographic surveys running with the BBC. Embedded below is the BBC Manchester Congestion Charge Survey: Thanks go to our funders on the project – the National Centre for e-Social Science at Manchester University for setting this one up. Its nice to see maps used…
Our latest working paper is now available for download – entitled Mapping for the Masses: Accessing Web 2.0 through Crowdsourcing. Abstract The paper first develops the network paradigm that is currently dominating the way we think about the internet and introduce varieties of social networking that are being fashioned in…
MapTube has just entered a new beta phase allowing both kml and kmz files to be linked in. Adding kml into the mix allows any map created via MyMaps to be viewed on MapTube and layered with any other map on the system. Its in beta but linking is easy,…
The rise in knife attacks and the number of teenagers murdered has been sadly dominating the news for a while now in the UK. Data on such incidents is hard to come by as the police do not provide open access to incident locations, despite it perhaps being in the…
We have been adding some new maps recently to MapTube, our most recent being the global price of Big Mac’s around the world. Based on the Big Mac Index which according to the Wiki was “introduced by The Economist in September 1986 as a humorous illustration and has been published…
Recent Comments