UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

16/08/2007
The Guardian (Technology Guardian)
Want to see a great 3D model of London online? Ordnance Survey says no
After a year of negotiations, academic geographers have conceded defeat in their attempt to find a way to make a pioneering 3D representation of the capital, Virtual London, available to all comers via the Google Earth online map.

15/04/2007
The Observer (Special Supplement)
The Top 500 British Surnames
The geo-genealogy project at CASA has been featured on a supplement of the Observer called "The top 500 British Surnames" published on the Sunday 15th of April 2007. Prof. Paul Longley provides a gentle introduction to name taxonomy and their geographical distribution across Britain. Maurizio Gibin created a map of the most diffused British surnames at postal town level.

21/03/2007
BBC London News
News Feature
Laura Bundock reported our Virtual London project on BBC London News on 21st March 2007 emphasizing how the model could be used to help in assessing planning applications as well as showing how climate change and pollution affects the city. Andy and Mike are featured.

20/03/2007
BBC Radio 4
Law in Action
Mike Batty and Steve Coast (ex CASA who devised Open Street Map) were interviewed by Mukul Devichand on 20th March 2007 about their use of publicly collected data in mapping products such as Virtual London. The program introduces the long standing debate over Crown Copyright and public sector information (PSI).

01/03/2007
3D World - The Magazine for 3D Artists (Issue 88)
Rent Your Own Virtual City
Page coverage of the Virtual London model in one of the leading industry magazines.

01/02/2007
PC Pro - Computing in the Real World (Issue 148)
Article on Web 2.0
DigitalUrban.blogspot.com named one of the top five blogs for Web 2.0

15/01/2007
New Stateman
Britain's moving story
Geography is key to understanding what it means to be British, according to an article in the New Statesman published on 15 January 2007. The article describes ESRC funded research in the Department of Geography that was led by Professor Paul Longley. Why did the Blairs move south? Why did the Becketts hardly move at all? Did the Tebbits never need to get on their bikes? And what was the Hattersley link with the Highlands after 1881?

04/01/2007
The Guardian (Technology Guardian)
Copyright fight sinks virtual planning
An article about copyright issues and the Virtual London project, including comments from Mike Batty and Andrew Hudson-Smith

01/12/2006
EDGE - Video Game Culture
'Out There'
Coverage of the work at CASA on the Oblivion Game Engine.