Nestoria Blog

Dearest Nestors,

Recently Alex Singleton of UCL’s Department of Geography got in touch with us to let us know about an amazing tool they’ve developed: London Profiler.

The tool is a great example of the advancements in online cartography in the last 2 years. The UCL team has overlayed all sorts of data sets as heat maps on a Google map of London. They’ve integrated the ability to overlay Nestoria KML feeds with all sorts of cool demographic data like educational achievement, and health. The data is incredibly detailed, literally down to the street.

The one that we found most interesting - E-society data that measures how ‘e-literate’ the local population is. Apparently Nestoria headquarters are in an area that is ‘E-marginalised’! We’ll work on improving our computer skills. Meanwhile London Profiler is an interesting tool we recommend any Londoner or anyone interested in cool cartographic data visualisation check out.

Know of other clever uses of Nestoria data? Please let us know.