At the end of September 2021, I received an email from Nature Reviews Methods Primers (NRMP) with an invitation to lead a paper on citizen science. NRMP is a journal that commissions methodological papers on different topics, so they can be used by early career and experienced researchers, to learn about a new methodology and … Continue reading Nature Reviews Methods Primers paper on citizen science
Under the leadership of Roger Fradera of the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, I was involved as a co-author on a 'thinkpiece' about citizen science and the nexus. If you haven't come across the term, ‘nexus’ is the linkage of food, energy, water and the environment as a major challenge for the future. The paper is … Continue reading New publication: Citizen Science and the Nexus (water, energy, food, population)
The UCL Urban Laboratory is a cross-disciplinary initiative that links various research interest in urban issues, from infrastructure to the way they are expressed in art, films and photography. The Urban Laboratory has just published its first Urban Pamphleteer which aim to 'confront key contemporary urban questions from diverse perspectives. Written in a direct and accessible … Continue reading UCL Urban laboratory pamphleteer – Beyond Quantification: We Need Meaningful Smart Cities
At the end of September, the manuscript of ‘Interacting with Geospatial Technologies’ was submitted to John Wiley & Sons. This is the reason for the silence on this blog since July while the final chapters were written. The book, which is an introduction to usability and Human-Computer Interaction aspects of GIS and other geospatial technologies, … Continue reading Interacting with Geospatial Technologies
In October 2007, Francis Harvey commissioned me to write a review article for Geography Compass on Neogeography. The paper was written in collaboration with Alex Singleton at UCL and Chris Parker from the Ordnance Survey. The paper covers several issues. Firstly, it provides an overview of the developments in Web mapping from the early 1990s … Continue reading Web Mapping 2.0 – an introduction to Neogeography in Geography Compass
In the past year I have worked on the evaluation of OpenStreetMap data. I was helped by Patrick Weber, Claire Ellul, and especially Naureen Zulfiqar who carried out part of the analysis of motorways. The OSM data was compared against Ordnance Survey Meridian 2 and the 1:10,000 raster as they have enough similarity to justify … Continue reading OSM quality evaluation
As part of our 'Towards Successful Suburban Town Centres' project, we have recently published the review of the literature in Geography Compass. The paper, titled 'The Sustainable Suburban High Street: A Review of Themes and Approaches' written by the project team, with Sam Griffiths leading the effort. We are already working on other papers from … Continue reading The Sustainable Suburban High Street
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