Reporting neighbours: what to make of covid reporting forms
Creating new forms of anti-social behaviour means scaling up old forms of reporting - how should we feel about this?
Space/Geography
Validating gendered reporting behaviour on FixMyStreet.com
mySociety paper replicating finding of gender differences in categories of reports to FixMyStreet.
FixMyStreet: The geography of citizen reporting
University of Stirling, the University of Sheffield and mySociety collaboration looking into the spatial patterns of reporting on FixMyStreetthe
How many colours would you need to make London's bus network more comprehensible?
Colourful network analysis.
Dog Fouling and FixMyStreet
mySociety paper looking at current patterns of reporting of dog fouling to local authorities, and the history of this as a social problem.
Drawing Lines on Maps: Arguments about Political Boundaries
Essay on the conflicts at the heart of arguments over political boundaries.
Traditional names are drenched in meaning - so how will what3words change how we see the world? (CityMetric)
CityMetric article about how mapping, names and technology.
From coconuts to GPS: A brief history of navigation (CityMetric)
CityMetric article on the history of technology that knows where you are.
From Titan's Doom Mons to Mercury's Pourquoi-Pas: how did the landscape of space get its names? (CityMetric)
CityMetric article about the the themed names for places on other planets.