Springing into Action

Springing into Action

Julie MacDonald, GiGL Data Officer “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina Tolstoy’s words were never truer than at GiGL over the last few months. As flowers and trees have finally bloomed in our late spring, so too have the projects we...
A Fresh Perspective on Geodiversity

A Fresh Perspective on Geodiversity

Julie MacDonald, GiGL Data Officer The GiGL team represent the partnership and their data at many events throughout the year, from regular London-wide fora to one-off specialist meetings and workshops. One such specialist workshop I attended earlier in the year was...
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...
Editorial

Editorial

Julie MacDonald, GiGL Data Officer Welcome to the winter edition of the GiGLer, where we review our ‘Olympic summer’ and give a general recap of the year. For many of our partners, 2012 has been an exceptionally busy year with both the Diamond Jubilee and Olympics...
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...