After a while baking in the oven the new Synced is almost ready to serve.

Here’s Febuary 2023’s development log for Synced’s dashboards and bounty features.

Here’s December’s development log for Synced’s new dashboards and bounty features. Watch this space to follow our progress.

Here’s the development log for Synced’s new dashboards and bounty features. Watch this space to follow our progress.

New York seen through the everyday service requests of New Yorkers.

Following on from our popular post on NYC 311 data, here San Francisco seen through the everyday service requests of San Franciscans.

Using the UK police’s crime dataset we looked at how crime changed in the UK’s cities during 2020’s first nationwide lockdown.

Using crowdsourced flight tracking data, we quantified Covid-19’s unprecedented disruption to air travel. In Part 1 we showed how we did it using the OpenSky Network dataset, and now in Part 2 we show what we found.

Using crowdsourced flight tracking data, we quantified Covid-19’s unprecedented disruption to air travel. Here in Part 1 we show how we did it using the OpenSky Network dataset, and in Part 2 we show what we found.

Is it a fun day out for all the family, or are there more risks than just seeing your team lose?

What happens to the places choosing to remove road signs, traffic lights, and markings?

This week the UK and US shifted gear in their strategy towards the coronavirus, introducing voluntary measures which would drastically affect people’s lives over the next few months (in the worst case possibly longer). One of these measures is asking people to avoid non-essential social contact with friends and family.

As part of our project with Innovate UK and the UK’s Geospatial Commission we have developed new tools for people to crowdsource the state of the neighbourhoods, and data feeds to inform people about the places they live, work and frequent.

Could You Live in a 72x120inch house?

Whangamomona is a Republic like no other

Another famous occasion of wisdom being found under a tree.

The beautiful game wasn’t always so beautiful.

Linking native code to React Native, piece of cake, right? After all it’s in the name. Wrong! I found it to be an unnecessarily complex and obscured process.

This highway in Japan goes right through the inside of a skyscraper.

The story of Colma, California.

For almost 60 years, a fire has been burning underneath Centralia, Pennsylvania.

React native is very versatile and widely used framework, frankly speaking, it is the best in class for creating cross platform applications. So, I was a bit disappointed to discover that React Native doesn’t come with a simple pinch to zoom component included in the box.