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Month: March 2011

MurderMap

30 March 2011 Ollie People

MurderMap is a manually curated map of homicides in London, based on records from the Central Criminal Court, aka the Old Bailey. The map’s creators

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Changing Deprivation in London

28 March 2011 James People

Chris Gale, a fellow UCL Geographer, has produced these maps showing the change in deprivation scores in London between 2007 and 2010. They show a

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1948 Olympic Competitors’ Map

25 March 2011 Ollie Historic, Tube

I came across this map of London train lines and underground routes in 1948, part of a guide and travel-card given to competitors at last

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Animals on the Underground

23 March 2011 Ollie Art, Tube

It’s part of human nature to see patterns where none exist. If you stare long enough at the London Underground, strange creatures might start to

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Before/After Aerial Photos of London

21 March 2011 Ollie Historic

Using the visualisation technique used by ABC Australia and the New York Times to show before/after photographs of the impact of the Japan Tsunami, below

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Typographic London

18 March 2011 James Art

Some of the most popular posts on spatialanalysis are about typographic maps. I thought it would be cool to put together some of my favourite’s

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A City of Tweets

16 March 2011 James Data, People

This is another great map animation from our friends in CASA. It is a year old now (almost to the day) but it remains one

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The OpenStreetMap of London

14 March 2011 Ollie Data

The OpenStreetMap project started in London in 2004 and has since grown to be a huge map of the whole world. It can be thought

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The London Underground Network in Detail

11 March 2011 Ollie Tube

The world is not short of London underground network maps, there is something very appealing about the mix of lines, curves, dashes and circles, all

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John Snow’s Cholera Map

9 March 2011 James People

Embedded below is a high resolution version of John Snow’s 1854 map of the Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) cholera outbreak. Widely cited as the

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Visualising London Transport

7 March 2011 James Data

Another brilliant visualisation from UCL’s CASA, this time from Anil Bawa-Cavia.  It visualises trips made on the London Underground using data gathered from Oyster Cards. Each trail is

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Where are the Bikes? – in 3D

7 March 2011 Ollie Data

Adrian Short, provider of one of the main 3rd-party APIs for the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London – the Boris Bikes API – has

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