GiGL’s Spaces to Visit dataset

GiGL’s Spaces to Visit dataset

Despite being a bustling metropolis, London is blessed with amazing green spaces of all shapes and sizes. Whether a park or common, playing field or a golf course, an allotment or a civic square, open spaces are important to all of London’s residents. They provide...
Knowles Knows: Demystifying the Data Exchange

Knowles Knows: Demystifying the Data Exchange

Emma Knowles, GiGL Partnership Officer Drawing from her experience working with GiGL partners, in this article series Emma answers frequently asked questions and explains commonly misunderstood terms. Please leave a comment below if you would like Emma to answer a...
Show & Tell: The new GiGL habitat database

Show & Tell: The new GiGL habitat database

Laura Kuurne (GiGL Database Officer) and Chloë Smith (GiGL Partnership Manager) This summer has been an exciting time for GiGL as we have been working on a brand new habitat database. Our legacy habitat datasets (we’ve never had a habitat database) have served us, our...
Show & Tell: Tailored Geology Maps

Show & Tell: Tailored Geology Maps

Julie Cox, Data Officer “Environmental data” is a catchall phrase that encompasses a huge range of possibilities. While GiGL’s best-known datasets are our partnership’s biodiversity and open spaces data, we also have access to a range of additional environmental...
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...