Why Is Greenwich so Common? A way of measuring uniqueness

Pleased to finally see this short paper written with Ordnance Survey's Stefano Cavazzi out. It is part of open-access LIPIcs proceedings, to be presented at GIScience 23 in Leeds 📄🌍🚶‍♀️. 📜 Ballatore, A. and Cavazzi, S. (2023) Why Is Greenwich so Common? Quantifying the Uniqueness of Multivariate Observations, 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science … Continue reading Why Is Greenwich so Common? A way of measuring uniqueness →

Platial narratives from leisure walking

A short paper by our student James Williams, co-supervised at Nottingham and at the Ordnance Survey, to be presented at PLATIAL 23 in Dortmund 🇩🇪📄🌍🚶‍♀️. 📜 Williams, J, Pinchin, J, Hazzard, A, Priestnall, G, Cavazzi, S, & Ballatore, A. (2023). Emerging Platial Narratives and Themes from a Leisure Walking Study. Fourth International Symposium on Platial … Continue reading Platial narratives from leisure walking →

Context for Leisure Walking Routes: A Vision for a Spatial-Platial Approach

Yet another short paper by our very productive student James Williams, co-supervised at Nottingham and at the Ordnance Survey, to be presented at the 2022 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics. Title: "Context for Leisure Walking Routes: A Vision for a Spatial-Platial Approach"Authors: James Williams, Stefano Cavazzi, James Pinchin, Adrian Hazzard, Gary Priestnall, and Andrea … Continue reading Context for Leisure Walking Routes: A Vision for a Spatial-Platial Approach →

A framework to create engaging leisure walking recommendations

Our student James Williams, co-supervised at Nottingham and at the Ordnance Survey, will present his work on route recommendation at the LBS Conference 2022 (Munich, 12–14 September 2022). Authors: James Williams, James Pinchin, Adrian Hazzard, Gary Priestnall, Stefano Cavazzi and Andrea Ballatore Title: "An Emerging Conceptual Model for Curating Engaging Leisure Walking Recommendations" Article: williams-j-lbs-2022Download

Research project: Searching for Unique Places

PI: Andrea Ballatore, Birkbeck, University of London, funded by Ordnance Survey (£40,000), 2019-20 Summary. This project will develop a framework for the search and recommendation of places. Unlike entities with clear boundaries, places such as neighbourhoods and towns are configurations of geo-located objects with fuzzy and arbitrary borders. Existing similarity search approaches have been optimised … Continue reading Research project: Searching for Unique Places →