A series of blue cycle lanes, branded signs, junction reprofiles and street furniture changes are gradually being built, creating a “hub and spoke” type network of fast cycle routes from inner/outer London into the centre. These are the Barclays Cycle Superhighways. Two are...

I wanted to steer clear of the iconic London Underground map because it is always featured on map blogs. I have already failed miserably thanks to London Peculiar posting this really great hand-drawn version. It was created in 1951 by an American in the army who clearly enjoyed joking about...

Google has updated the aerial photography available in Google Maps, for London. The new imagery appears to be from late summer 2010, showing the current crop of skyscrapers being built in and around the City of London, as well as other major new construction sites like the London 2012 Olympic...

The map is a cartogram showing the level of child poverty for each of London’s councils in addition to their predicted loss in revenue spending power resulting from the recent government cuts. As you can see the shapes of some of the poorest boroughs in London have been enlarged to...

Some of us at CASA can’t get enough of the Barclay’s Cycle Hire data. We have had Ollie‘s hugely successful flow maps, journeytime heat maps, and now the the Sociable Physicist himself, Martin Austwick has created this stunning animation of the bikes. The TFL data release...

The Nike Grid was an Alternative Reality Game (ARG) for runners, held over two weeks on the streets of London late last year. After each day’s race, W+K, the campaign planners, produced a stunning infographic video showing that day’s runs, superimposed on a map. The routes were...

Buried in the London Datastore are the population estimates for each of the London Boroughs between 2001 – 2030. They predict a declining population for most boroughs with the exception of a few to the east. I was surprised by this general decline and also the numbers involved- I...

Paying to use London’s roads is not a new idea. I have just come across a map showing turnpike gates (tolls) which were like the 18th Century equivalent of congestion charging. Instead of a single zone there appear to have been 16, each demanding a fee. It is unclear whether cyclists(!)...

Demeter Sztanko has produced a stunning, minimalistic visualisation of the routes of the first 1.4 million Barclays Cycle Hire bikes. It is assumed that the cyclists take the “best” available route, as actual routes are unknown – only the start and end points are available....

Ollie O’Brien, one of the contributors to this blog, has produced a map, which updates in near-real-time, of the full/empty states of the 350-odd docking stands in the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in central London. As each stand fill with bikes, the colour goes from blue to red. The area...

Inspired by the What’s in a Surname? map we helped make with the National Geographic, I have created 15 interactive typographic maps to show the most popular surnames across London. What they lack in cartographic brilliance, I hope they make up for in detail. There are 983 geographic...