London Cycle Hire Map - now with live data

We wrote last week about the launch of Barclays Cycle Hire, London’s first public bike rental scheme, and produced a map using data published by the London Datastore, along with some ideas on usability compared with the official map of the docking stations.

The achillesĀ heel of this effort, of course, was the lack of real time [...]

London Cycle Hire Map

Today saw the launch of Barclays Cycle Hire, London’s first public bike rental scheme. In keeping with the new spirit of open data, the locations of the docking stations (rental points) have been published via the London Datastore, along with a challenge for innovative uses.

The most obvious application of this data is to drive smartphone [...]

2010 Election Tweet Map

Election Tweet MapOur election map merges both our Open Data and Twitter modules. While this map may look like a mashup tweets and an image overlay a lot more is going on behind the scenes:

a) Twitter: Only tweets that are properly geocoded are being [...]

If you don't know where you are going...

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” Yogi Berra

The Geo.me blog has launced. This inaugral post is to welcome our community and ask you to stay tuned for what we hope will become a lively and engaging community. We intend to showcase our geoCMS and data management capability, delve [...]