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.
Which green spaces are valued in Leicestershire and why?
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.
Kartographischen Kolloquium
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.
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.