Our work
Octophin build interactive maps, apps, websites, community platforms and databases solely for the environment conservation, arts and heritage sectors.
We have world-leading knowledge on interactive mapping of all aspects of the natural world and its sustainable communities (from seafood to forestry), and have spoken on building maps for good at
several international conferences. We have built many collaborative databases of wildlife sightings, green spaces, sustainable seafood, recipes and more, and manage a community platform and wiki for conservation technologists and a citizen science wildife identification gaming platform both with thousands of active members.
On the arts side of our work we have worked on big data projects (demographic mapping, dashboard building) for Arts Council England via The Audience Agency and Artsadmin for many years, built the website for real world adventure games company HiddenCity (recently made an official partner of the 007 James Bond brand), built interactive maps and artist databases for the Crouch End Open Studios events and worked with Newham Council on digitisation projects for their new heritage centre.

TerrAdapt geospatial analysis and reporting dashboard
Visualising projections of changes in natural environments

Interactive map, dashboard and portal for 400 years of UK sturgeon sightings
We worked with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to visualise 400 years of historic sturgeon sightings in the UK.

The Audience Agency - Multi-site system and three websites
We worked with The Audience Agency to build three interlinked websites each with their own urls, theme but sharing a server and some content.

Booking Behaviour Report
Giving monthly insights into the timing, frequency, proportion of first time visitors and group dynamics of arts organisation bookings.

Key Biodiversity Areas factsheets scraper, archive and backup system
We worked with the Key Biodiversity Areas team at Birdlife International to build a scraper of their World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas

Global Safety Net map
We built a globe-view interactive map for One Earth's Global Safety Net project featuring more than a dozen categorised raster and vector layers and data queries mapped to a user selectable view of countries, ecoregions, bioregions and states.

WILDLABS Inventory
The Inventory is a collaborative encyclopedia (wiki) of conservation technology and part of the WILDLABS.NET conservation technology community platform.

Time Traveller’s Guide to London Zoo
We built an interactive historical timeline for ZSL London Zoo powered by a flexible content management system and including features such as a quiz and multiple themes.

Seabird Flyways
We worked with BirdLife International on a project visualising their project on the "Six Major Bird 'Super Highways'.

Interactive map of UK arts demographics
We used the Audience Agency's database of millions of (anonymised) bookers, placed into demographic categories using their Audience Spectrum system to plot the data onto an interactive map.

North Western Waters Advisory Council mutlingual interactive map (AC Fishmap)
A multi-lingual map for fishers and legal and conservation organisations containing dozens of layers and lists of fishing regulations.

WILDLABS.NET
WILDLABS is a conservation technology community platform featuring discussion forums, community groups, instant messages, community sourced listings for events, jobs and funding opportunities and articles.

RAF Museum interactive touchscreen kiosk and archive database
Converting word documents and images into an interactive museum kiosk at RAF Museum.

Seabird Tracking Database
We built a new version of the collaborative Seabird Tracking Database for Birdlife International.

Spring Alive
We built a new, multilingual multisite for the Spring Alive citizen science project.

Trillion Trees website
We built a new website for Trillion Trees, showcasing their work across the world through features including a project directory and an interactive map.

IPNLF - Sourcing Transparency Platform
We worked with The International Pole and Line Foundation on a database of tuna products, species, fisheries, gear types, vessels and companies.

The National Red List Project
Creating a new database, interactive map and importer of thousands of historic records for the National Red List.

Discover Seafood
We worked with Mindfully Wired Communications and the Fishmongers Company to build an interactive online portal about locally caught seafood. Including a UK-wide map of ports and retailers, recipes, directory of species, stories from the fishing community and more.

NUS - RecycleLeague pilot
We built a data visualisation showing live weekly recycling rates of various competing universities and other institutions.

TerrAdapt
Aside from our work with TerrAdapt on their geospatial visualisation, analysis and reporting tools Octophin built, designed and now support a website to showcase their work.

Crouch End Open Studios
A website and app that serves as a home to a directory of artists co-managed by the artists themselves, also a wayfinding system for visitors on open studios events.

Chagos Information Portal - Tracking Map of Red Footed Booby Expedition
We animated and visualised the first tracking data from seabird species from the Chagos Archipelago. journey.

Artsadmin Room Bookings system
A room booking, staff management and equipment and catering system

Chagos Information Portal - Interactive Timeline
An interactive timeline of expeditions

eHarmony - Dating profile text analyser "Language of Love"
Dating profile analyser based on research into successful profile keywords for men and women.

Chagos Information Portal
A resources library and interactive map landing page for UK charity the Chagos Conservation Trust.

Interactive War Memorial for Find My Past
A viral social media campaign for leading geneology website.

Angel Shark sightings map
An interactive, multilingual map allowing divers to record sightings of the critically endangered species.

UK Heartbeat - Live Twitter visualisation and analysis for eHarmony
An Interactive Twitter multi level visualisation dashboard for the word “love”

A custom interactive map builder for zoos, museums and art galleries
In 2016 we build a tool for quickly creating and managing interactive maps.

eHarmony - The Future of Dating interactive report
Communicating the findings of a report by relationship site eHarmony and Imperial Business College into what dating will be like by the year 2040 in a consumer-friendly and shareable way.

Cat Map - a viral success for London Zoo
An online campaign which would build excitement and buzz online about a brand-new big cat exhibit at ZSL London Zoo.

Thames Marine Mammal Map
An interactive citizen science map built for the Zoological Society of London’s Thames seal conservation project.