The giCentre is engaged in high quality research and education involving the use of Geographic Information (GI).
We develop the theory, practice and technology that support Geographic Information Science and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), offer innovative and high quality learning opportunities and play a leading role in the international GI research community.
We helped Leicestershire County Council collect over 3000 public views on the green spaces in Leicestershire.
The results are now in. You can explore them with our interactive map. Browse people's comments by area, by type of green space or by keyword and find out why citizens value their green spaces.
Jason Dykes gave a Kartographischen Kolloquium at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences.
The talk was on the invitation of the G(V)ISR group.
Jason presented a series of giCentre ideas and applications including: placeSurvey; csrNet; bikeGrid and HiDE.
Aidan attended the Science of Risk conference at Lloyd's of London at which the Lloyd's Research Prize winners were announced. The Research Prize rewards existing published research with relevance to the insurance industry in five categories: natural hazards, climate change, biological and technological risks, behavioural risks and insurance operations and markets. Aidan's entry for work with the National Centre for Atmospheric Science at Reading University was shortlisted for the natural hazards category.
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.