Jonny Huck
Geographical Information Science
Contact
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Profiles
- GitHub
- Google Scholar
- Academic Profile
- MCGIS Research Group
- Lune Geographic Ltd. (GIS Consultancy)
Websites
- Map-Me PPGIS platform
- Paper2GIS PPGIS platform
- Community Mapping Humanitarian mapping
Research
About Jonny
Jonny Huck is Professor of Computational Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester. He has a BSc with First Class Honours in Geography from the Lancaster University, a MSc with Distinction in Geographical Information Systems from the University of Leeds, and a PhD in Geographical Information Science from Lancaster University. Jonny's his research is principally focused on the creation of novel methods in GIS, which he applies to a range of environmental, urban and global health applications.
Jonny maintains the freely available Map-Me and Paper2GIS Participatory GIS platforms, alongside a wide selection of open source software available on GitHub. Prior to moving to academia, Jonny was the Technical Manager of a UK Wind Farm developer. He continues to operate his GIS consultancy Lune Geographic Ltd., in which he provides GIS software and solutions to clients in a variety of industries. Jonny was honoured with a fellowship of Furness College at Lancaster University in 2016 and an honorary Chair in Geographical Information Science at Gulu University, Uganda in 2019. In 2017, he founded communitymapping.org, a humanitarian mapping organisation that seeks to map remote and rural locations in reponse to chronic humanitarian crises. He is a steering committee member of OSGeo:UK and is former national chair of GISRUK.
Jonny was the founder of the MCGIS research group at the University of Manchester and is a member of the Editorial Board of Transactions in GIS. He has won three prestigeous "Making a Difference" Awards from the University of Manchester: in 2018 for his Community Mapping Uganda project, in 2021 for his work on protecting Kenyan communities against COVID-19, and in 2022 for his work with primary schools in Greater Manchester.
Resources
This Two-sample Permutation Test Tool can be used to compare hypotheses about two samples (a non-parametric alternative to a t-test).
This Multi-sample Permutation Test Tool can be used to compare hypotheses about 2-6 samples (a non-parametric alternative to an ANOVA test).
This Concordance Analysis Tool can be used to evaluate agreement between two datasets (normally for the evaluation of a method).
This Map Projection Editor provides a simple interface to experiment with basic global map projections.
This Guide to Participatory GIS was created for the Methods for Change project, it provide a brief overview of the approach (aimed at non-academics) as well as a guide to creating a PGIS survey using Map-Me. There is also an associated summary poster.
My Guide to Cryptography and Cryptanalysis provides some easy to understand information about making and breaking classical ciphers.
Selected Publications
- Huck, J. (2025). The QGIS Polygon Divider: Polygon partition into an irregular equal area grid. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
- Huck, J., Denwood, T., & Taylor, J. (2025). Decision Making under Uncertainty: Increasing the Impact of Public Participatory GIS. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
- Dennis, M., & Huck, J. J. (2025). The Continuity‐Contiguity Problem in Fragmentation‐Biodiversity Research. Journal of Biogeography.
- Huck, J. (2025). Evaluating Map Projections for Globemaking. The Cartographic Journal, 1–11.
- Huck, J.J., Dennis, M., Labib, S.M. (2025). Addressing bias in the use of buffers for focal and geographically weighted analyses. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
- Huck, J., Whyatt, D., Davies, G., Dixon, J., Sturgeon, B., Hocking, B., Jarman, N & Bryan, D. (2023). Fuzzy Bayesian inference for mapping vague and place-based regions: a case study of sectarian territory. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.
- Huck, J.J., Atim, P., Moro, E.B., Nirmalan, M. (2022). Prevalence and Spatial Patterns of Major Limb Loss in the Acholi Sub-Region of Uganda. Prosthesis 4(3), 369-382.
- Huck, J.J., Perkins, C., Haworth, B.T., Moro, E.B., Nirmalan, M. (2021). Centaur VGI: A Hybrid Human–Machine Approach to Address Global Inequalities in Map Coverage. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 111(1), 231-251.
- Huck, J.J., Whyatt, J.D. Sturgeon, B., Hocking, B., Davies, G., Dixon, J., Jarman, N. and Bryan, D. (2018). Exploring Segregation and Sharing in a Divided City: a PGIS approach. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
- Huck, J.J., Whyatt, D. Coulton, P., Davison, B. & Gradinar, A. (2017). Combining Biometric, Environmental and Locational Data for Health-Related Citizen Science Applications. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 189: 114.
- Huck, J., Whyatt, D. & Coulton, P. (2015). Visualising patterns in spatially ambiguous point data. Journal of Spatial Information Systems. 10, p. 47-66.
- Huck, J.J., Whyatt, D. & Coulton, P. (2014). Spraycan: a PPGIS for capturing imprecise notions of place. Applied Geography. 55, p. 229-237.
A more comprehensive list of publications is available here.
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