Poster presentation – GISRUK 2013

April 4, 2013

The following image shows the ‘territories’ controlled by different supermarkets in Sheffield. It is part of a presentation on open source data and software for store location analysis. This was present today at the GISRUK annual conference.

Supermarket 'territories' in Sheffield

Supermarket ‘territories’ in Sheffield

The full poster can be downloaded from here:

Attempted cycle from Brussels to Amsterdam

February 25, 2013

On Monday 11th of February I caught a train to Brussels from London: my final destination was Amsterdam, but it was cheaper (£59 return!) and more challenging to cycle the last leg. The trip was fun, and shows how proper bicycle infrastructure can make long distance rides very appealing compared to places where big cities are connected only by fast direct roads or slow, winding paths. Read on and be inspired to make a long-distance bicycle trip of your own!

Route taken on Day 1, Brussels to Antwerp.

Route taken on Day 1, Brussels to Antwerp.

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Call for Papers for RGS-IBG session (28th – 30th August, London). Transport and energy: a roadblock to sustainability?

January 29, 2013

Please send abstracts to Robin Lovelace (robin.lovelace@shef.ac.uk) or Stewart Barr (S.W.Barr@exeter.ac.uk) by 10th February at the latest:
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Presentation for copenhagen

January 9, 2013

Copenhagen presentation

Here are my presentation slides for the colloquium on spatial analysis at the Management Science and Productivity Economics department, University of Copenhagen.

Panoramas using open source software

December 29, 2012

Here’s a panorama from just outside my house in Sheffield.

It’s compiled by pan0.net, a social panoramic photo site that uses the GNU-licensed pan0 software to convert a precompiled panoramic image into an embeddable flash file.

[url=http://pan0.net/w/up-4187][img]http://pan0.net/data/users/panos/thumbnails/2323/4187.jpg[/img][/url]


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