Our research supports the development of new and beneficial ways of accessing and using digital geographic information to achieve insights into the World around us. The results are used in policy development, in industry and by other researchers worldwide. We have particular expertise in geographic information science, geovisualization and location-based services.
You can view much of our work online through this searchable repository of academic publications and links to our software applications.
Jason, Sarah and Iain participated at the GIS Research UK 20th Annual Conference (GISRUK 2012) at Lancaster University.
Sarah’s poster - Geovisualization of Household Energy Consumption Characteristics - won Best Poster.
Iain's paper was entitled Characterising Locality Descriptions in Crowdsourced Crisis Information.
Aidan participated in the MOVE meeting at Delft University of Technology along with researchers from across Europe with interests and different expertises in handling and analysing movement data. He presented the user-centred approach used in his Short Term Scientific Mission to Amsterdam last May. He also attended the pre-meeting workshop Urbanism on Track and presented his interactive graphics for exploring a dataset of human movements by different groups of people.
The giCentre has released a library of classes for writing data visualization programs with the software Processing. Includes classes for statistical graphics, colour management, animated transitions and geographic transformations. The utilities are fully documented with examples and are open source. See gicentre.org/utils.
A new application written by the giCentre uses live data from the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme to reveal patterns in docking station use across London. It uses spatial treemaps to show the last 24 hours use of all London docking stations in a grid. To use the BikeGrid application, go to gicentre.org/bikegrid.