Frequently Asked Questions

Data search report service – FAQs These FAQs are for our data search report service. Please refer to other pages in our website for other information. Access How can I order a data search report for London? If you are a client, data search reports for London are...
Masses of moths

Masses of moths

Lyndsey Cox, GiGL’s Data Entry Officer GiGL currently holds nearly 2.8 million species records. Whilst I can’t claim to have input all of those records myself, I can lay claim to just over 1.5 million. In recent years, the greatest number of records has come to GiGL...
The Consultants’ Portal

The Consultants’ Portal

Ella Vogel, NBN Secretariat Of the hundreds of thousands of biological records collected by environmental consultants and other ecological professionals, only a very small number are shared beyond the commissioning agency. This is due in part to the lack of a standard...
Open Data

Open Data

The open data movement is inspiring and exciting, but for it to work for the environmental data sector it needs long-term and significant investment in our local, regional and national data infrastructure The Open Data Institute (ODI) defines open data as “data that...

Branching out

The London Assembly’s Environment Committee released ‘Branching Out – The future of London’s Trees’ in April. Describing the importance of street trees to London’s environment, the report looks at a number of issues surrounding them, including the value placed on them...