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MurderMap
  • Demographics
Mar30

MurderMap

posted by Ollie

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 are building an online database that “will contain details of every murder and manslaughter committed in London from the crimes of...

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Changing Deprivation in London
  • Demographics
  • Policy
Mar28

Changing Deprivation...

posted by James

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 measure called the Index of Multiple Deprivation which ranks areas nationally according to how “deprived” they are. According to an...

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1948 Olympic Competitors’ Map
  • Historic
  • Tube
Mar25

1948 Olympic Competi...

posted by Ollie

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 Olympic Games in London, in 1948, while at an exhibition at Westminster Hall on London 2012. The circle line is highlighted in red and captioned...

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Animals on the Underground
  • Art
  • Tube
Mar23

Animals on the Under...

posted by Ollie

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 appear. These are the Animals on the Underground, over 30 have been “found”, there is a dedicated website to help spot them, and...

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Before/After Aerial Photos of London
  • Historic
Mar21

Before/After Aerial ...

posted by Ollie

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 are before/after photographs of four areas in London which have seen dramatic change in the last ten years. Pass your mouse over each image...

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Typographic London
  • Infographics
  • Visualisation
Mar18

Typographic London

posted by James

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 for London. Click on each image to see the source. So in no particular order here goes… Thames London Type Map London Linocut...

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A City of Tweets
  • Visualisation
Mar16

A City of Tweets

posted by James

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 of the most engaging Twitter animations I have seen for the city. It shows a sample of all the geo-located tweets sent over a London weekend. I like it because it shows...

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The OpenStreetMap of London
  • Data
Mar14

The OpenStreetMap of...

posted by Ollie

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 of as the Wikipedia of maps, where anyone can log in, go to their local area and add in local roads, rivers and pubs. London has taken a long time to get to its...

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The London Underground Network in Detail
  • Tube
Mar11

The London Undergrou...

posted by Ollie

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 shown across a distinctive set of colours. I am particularly impressed with the London carto.metro map, produced by Franklin Jarrier last month,...

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John Snow’s Cholera Map
  • Demographics
  • Infographics
Mar09

John Snow’s Ch...

posted by James

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 one of the first (and arguably best) examples of using spatial analysis in epidemiological studies, Snow’s map holds a special place...

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Visualising London Transport
  • Data
  • Visualisation
Mar07

Visualising London T...

posted by James

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 a single trip between a known origin and destination station. Anil has guessed the route in between...

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Where are the Bikes? – in 3D
  • Data
  • Visualisation
Mar07

Where are the Bikes?...

posted by Ollie

Adrian Short, provider of one of the main 3rd-party APIs for the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London – the Boris Bikes API – has taken his data and produced a live-updating KML file of the numbers of bike at each docking station, viewable in Google Earth. Flying around central...

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The Travelling Football Clubs of London
  • Visualisation
Mar04

The Travelling Footb...

posted by Ollie

Two interesting maps of football clubs and London: First, Dean of The Londonist has mapped out the various locations of London’s football clubs over time. Many of them have moved a surprisingly large number of times. In the extract above, Fulham appears to be particularly nomadic,...

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Hyde Park Glove Map
  • Visualisation
Mar02

Hyde Park Glove Map

posted by James

If you lack a sense of direction and resort to writing directions on scraps of paper or the palm of your hand, this glove is for you. It was designed for George Shove in 1851 and shows the Great Exhibition, held in Hyde Park, and its surroundings. I would hate to think how many pairs of...

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