The Mapping London Blog

Now this is just excellent – it’s a roll of tape with a custom-designed map of the London Underground (and DLR & Overground) on it. It’s produced by the Seoul-based…

TfL have produced a nice range of maps to promote walking instead of public transport (especially during the Olympics).  The maps use different cartography to the other walking maps TfL…

Perhaps inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover (maybe a favourite for the commute?), Jon Reades (from UCL CASA- of course!) has created this beautiful infographic depicting “a week in…

We featured the first official Olympic Park map at the beginning of the year, and it has already received an update which now includes pictures of the major buildings and…

People often say “I waited ages for a bus and then they all turned up at once”. As the map above shows if all the timetabled buses in London literally…

Stamen Design are a bespoke design and technology company based in San Francisco. They have a reputation for creating wonderful looking maps, often with OpenStreetMap data, and their latest map…

The image above is a photo of part of a large map of London, created just after the Second World War and showing buildings that were damaged or destroyed in…

This post was going to appear on Friday but I’ve brought it forward as tickets are rapidly disappearing – 2/3rds of them have already been snapped up. Our research lab…

We probably don’t feature enough old maps of London on here – we tend to go for the latest glitzy maps, but to make up, here is a huge collection…

Eric Fischer produced this interesting data map of London a while back. The map is entirely made of of location coordinates included on Twitter tweets, and Flickr photographs, in the…

The Mapping London blog is 1 year today! We launched on February 24, 2011. To celebrate, today we are featuring Google Maps, and how it currently looks like for the…

As a cyclist in London you can do your best to avoid left turning buses and dozy pedestrians. One thing you can’t really avoid though is pollution (although I accept…

“Geodemographics of Housing in Great Britain – a new visualisation in the style of Charles Booth’s map” is a map that I have produced that shows the Index of Multiple…

James previously featured a tube map made up of just names of the stations. He’s also featured other London typographic maps. Exploring a little further, it turns out there’s some…

This arty image of the area around Trafalgar square is a small section of a rather interesting caricature created by Hartwig Braun, of a view of the West End and…

Streetview Stereographic is a great website that takes Google Streetview pictures and turns them into stereographic images. These images look great, especially in urban environments and have previously taken a…

This* splendid typographic London Underground map arrived in the mappinglondon post tray this morning. Scott at Fadeout Design has simply replaced the track lines with the station names. From a distance…

LOCOG (The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) yesterday released a new map of the key Olympic Park in east London, as part of their 200-days-to-go celebrations. They also…