Re-introducing GiGL’s Datasets

Re-introducing GiGL’s Datasets

Julie MacDonald, GiGL Data Officer GiGL’s datasets have changed a lot over the last few years. We are providing more types of data and more data products than ever before. Even our standard GiGL datasets have had an overhaul. After all these changes, our data guide...
Tighten our Green Belts

Tighten our Green Belts

Julie MacDonald, GiGL Data Officer Since the 1950s, London’s green belt and metropolitan open land designations have been instrumental in protecting open space across the capital. However, London-wide datasets for these two designations are not currently widely...

Park it

Claudia Watts, GiGL Royal Parks Officer The Royal Parks cover approximately 5,000 acres, making an enormously important contribution to open space and wildlife habitats in the capital. Such a wide area means that there is a lot of wildlife to be recorded. The Royal...

The GIGL press gang

Credit where credit’s due. A great deal of work lies behind the snappy press and publicity stats GiGL provides. Mandy Rudd explains. GiGL’s partners are making ever-more use of our growing data holdings to create snappy, media-friendly statistics in support of their...

The only way is up

Matt Davies, GiGL Data Manager, on the benefits of our latest software upgrade. After considerable effort to install, accurately migrate data and develop the custom reporting we need for our day-to-day work, our Recorder 6 database is now up and running. Having...