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Octophin build interactive maps, apps, community platforms and databases solely for the environment conservation, arts and heritage sectors. 

 

We take great pride and care in all the work that we do, the resulting trust with clients leading to almost all of our work being received through word of mouth rather than bid applications 

 

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. 

 

Our work has featured in publications including the BBC, Independent, Ars Technica, Wired Japan and more, but most importantly has had a direct impact on people and the environment.

 

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.

WDKBA import screen

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.

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Database
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Data collection / import
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Multi-user / community / CRM
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API development
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GIS
Global Safety Net

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.

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Interactive maps
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GIS
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Database
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API development
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Data visualisation

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Mapbox
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Google Earth Engine
Instant Detect

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.

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Hardware
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Multi-user / community / CRM
WILDLABS.NET

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.

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WILDLABS.NET

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Website
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Interactive maps
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Drupal
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Discover Seafood

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.

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Discover Seafood

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Website

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Wordpress
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Mapbox
Food for the Brain website

Food for the Brain website, membership system and Cognitive Function Test

We worked with the Food for the Brain Foundation, a mental health nutrition charity, to redesign and rebuild their website and their scientifically validated Cognitive Function Test.

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Website
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Branding
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Game
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E-commerce / donations
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Wordpress
Audience Agency

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.

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Python
Capacity for Conservation

Capacity for Conservation multilingual organisation assessment tool and resource library

Capacity for Conservation is a free online resource that can help conservation organisations to develop themselves to be stronger, more resilient and able to deliver enduring conservation impacts.

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Multilingual
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Multi-user / community / CRM
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Education

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Wordpress
Conservation Leadership Programme Application Portal

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.

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Wordpress
TerrAdapt

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.

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TerrAdapt

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Website
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Interactive maps

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Drupal
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Wagtail
Instant Wild

Instant Wild

Instant Wild is a gamified citizen science platform (including iOS and Android apps) where users can help identify species in camera trap imagery around the world.

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Instant Wild

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Game
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Multilingual
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Drupal
Crouch End Open Studios map

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.

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Crouch End Open Studios

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Wordpress
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E-commerce