Tag Archives: CEGE

Wheelchair Accessibility Mapping Party at UCL

As part of the induction week for the new cohort of the MSc in GIS here at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, I organised a OpenStreetMap Mapping Party. OSM mapping is not only a fun activity that gets the students out of the classroom and getting to know each other, but also [...]

What’s in store for 2011!

As you may have noticed, I haven’t updated this blog now for over a year. One of the main reasons for this was the focus involved in finishing my Engineering Doctorate, including passing my Viva in last November (examiners were Prof. Paul Longley and Dr Richard Harris), leading to handing in my final copies in [...]

Opportunities in Citizen Science research

There are three PhD studentships and a postdoc position that have opened recently here at the Chorley Institute where I work, specifically in the newly started: … ‘Extreme Citizen Science’ (ExCiteS) research group. The group’s activities focus on the theory, methodologies, techniques and tools that are needed to allow any community to start its own [...]