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.

Key Biodiversity Areas database importers and geospatial database
We have worked with Birdlife International on their World Database of Keybiodiversity Areas since 2023 and in 2024 were asked to build a new system to allow organisations to bulk upload sites to be proposed as Key Biodiversity Areas.

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.

Newham heritage centre consultancy
A consultultancy project around the best ways to digitise the Newham historical archive and showcase their upcoming heritage centre.

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.

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

Species Use Database
Improving knowledge and understanding of how wild species are used, where they are used, if that use is sustainable or unsustainable, and what impacts that use is having.

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

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.

iBeholder mobile arts survey system for 4 galleries in Northern Ireland
We worked with The Audience Agency and Thrive to build a mobile-first web application for art gallery surveys.

Instant Detect satellite wildlife monitoring system
Instant Detect 2.0 is a wildlife, environment and threat monitoring system designed by conservationists for conservationists. The system consists of multiple battery-powered cameras and sensors that capture images and data and then transmit it to the cloud in near real-time using satellite connectivity.

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.

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.

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.

Ticketing pipelines and big data APIs for hundreds of arts venues in the UK
Octophin built ticketing pipelines for many ticketing systems (Spektrix, TicketSolve, Tessitura and more); creating APIs, scrapers and importers to ingest, parse, normalise, analyse and anonymise (via Experian APIs) daily data on tickets, people and events.

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

Conservation Leadership Programme
A WordPress based application portal system featuring a collaborative reviewer system, complex multi-group application forms, application cut off dates, MS Word export of reviews and applications, detailed exports and imports of data, quick assigning of reviewers and filtering of applications and more.

Trillion Trees Consultancy
Reforestation data collection research project for Trillion Trees (FORMAPP)

SCUTE - Conservation hardware administration system
SCUTE will build an extendable graphical administration interface for hardware devices from JSON schema files, allowing people to view reports about connected devices, update and manage configuration

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

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

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

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

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.