Category Archive: Local

Jun 02 2012

Socio-econmic Geography Casestudy: Celebrating the Jubilee in all communities

Human Geography regularly focuses on the social and economic factors of communities. Below is a great topical case study of the Socio-economic geography in the UK. happy Jubilee! Article Eric Pickles today announced extra funding to ensure that communities are not left out of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations this summer. With one month to go …

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May 08 2012

Article: Map of 10,000 Tweets Shows New York City at Work: geotag example

A great example of geotagging in action here. Eric Fischer has mapped the geotags from Twitter to show New York’s social media backbone: http://mashable.com/2012/01/27/nyc-geotagged-tweets/ (Sent from Flipboard) Tweet

Jul 14 2011

Geography of UK Crime: Are you safe?

Geography of UK Crime

Public data has gone from strength to strength in the past decade and today saw the release of the annual British Crime Survey for 2010/11 results. This survey has led to to some interesting reading, with an interactive map making the data that little bit more interactive. All of the geographic data used to make this …

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