Kingston University Centre for GIS

31/03/2025

A dashboard onto the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme records with time series as colour coded rings from 1973 in their center to 2023 at their maximum extent. It would be nice to be able to interactively change the size and temporal resolution of each series but that would take a lot more effort. Its a big dataset and is only configured for viewing on a PC.
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/a88fb069d05144f6a6ba9f64544fafb0

22/01/2025

We are looking for 2-3 Kingston alumni who work in GIS to give short talks (10 min) on how they got where they are and why GIS makes for an interesting career at school event on the morning of 12th March. The event will be on the Penrhyn Road Campus. DM or email me is you are interested ([email protected]).

07/12/2024

Mapping urbanisation of SW London using the building age attribute of the Verisk UK Buildings dataset available through Digimap.

27/10/2024

My London train map now has 114 train stations that have had 183 different names since 1837.

How railiways in SW London evolved through time including station name changes. Lines and stations from (Addy 2017) and Wikipedia.Pope, Addy. (2017). GB Rail...

07/10/2024

More wall art. The range boundaries of 3881 terrestial mammals revealing the mountains, rivers and climate zones that limit multiple species ranges.

06/10/2024

Chanelling Edward Tufte's mininalist aethetic in this map of disjunct nodes between geographical areas in a mammal supertree

07/09/2024

Guardian University League tables published today and a bit of a nice surprise - 4th overall and best for teaching satisfaction!

23/07/2024

Save the date! 📅

The 2024 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition opens on September 4. Use your talents — from cartography to photography — to build a story about the world you want to see.

🔸Get the details and storytelling resources here: http://esri.social/8qWl50SCPvu

07/07/2024

Mt Hekla show erupting in Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas (1691). Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura.