My Academic Research: What’s in a Name?
I have spent the last few years investigating the geography of family names (also called surnames). I work with the team who assembled the UCL Department of Geography...
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Interview for the Global Lab Podcast
This week I feature on the 4th Episode of the Global Lab podcast. The podcast is a great new initiative led by Martin and Steve from CASA where they talk about cities,...
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My Week in Maps
This week has been a busy one with the “publication” of a couple of maps I have been involved with alongside the circulation of a few cartographic gems. I...
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Mapping London’s Surnames
Inspired by the What’s in a Surname? map we helped make with the National Geographic, I have created 15 interactive typographic maps to show the most popular...
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What’s in a Surname? (AKA United States of Surnames!)
The typographic map above (click for interactive version) is a collaboration between Oliver Uberti‘s design team at National Geographic Magazine and and my own...
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Surnames for the Big Chill
Thanks to the jet stream, many parts of the UK have just had the coldest November night on record. During these extreme weather events we become especially interested...
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spatial.ly is written and curated by James Cheshire. James is a lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis where he researches, teaches and maps.