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A-Z London 2012 Venues Atlas
  • Events
Jul31

A-Z London 2012 Venu...

posted by Ollie

The A-Z is probably the most famous London Atlas – it’s been around for over 75 years, and has been updated ever since. The company recently launched a trio of London 2012 maps – a pocket-sized fold-out map of the Olympic Park, a slightly larger one with detailed maps of...

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Summer 2012 Map
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  • Tourist
Jul30

Summer 2012 Map

posted by James

Next time you are passing through a station keep an eye out for a “London Summer 2012″ map. It is a similar style to the “Why not Walk it Maps?”  we featured previously, but covers most of central London and all the Olympic Park. The maps feature key landmarks, the...

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Olympic Venues as an Infographic Map
  • Infographics
Jul25

Olympic Venues as an...

posted by Ollie

Thanks to the Chairman of CASA, Prof Michael Batty, for tipping me off about this map of Olympic Venues in London, created by Katherine Baxter and Steven Potter of LondonTown. Above is just a small extract from the map. This is another in a good series of infographic maps that LondonTown has...

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Mike Hall’s London Boroughs
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Jul23

Mike Hall’s Lo...

posted by Ollie

Mike Hall, illustrator and designer, has been painstakingly creating large poster maps of each of the London boroughs, largely by hand. Each map has a different design and theme, drawing on the most famous aspects of the borough. He’s drawn eight boroughs so far and promises more are on...

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Recce
  • Infographics
  • Visualisation
Jul17

Recce

posted by Ollie

Recce is an iPhone app which locates you on a map and shows you various POIs (points of interest) on demand such as local coffee shops. Nothing particularly new – but it’s the map which makes the app come to life here. Instead of your standard 2D overhead map, or a muddy if...

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Travel to Work
  • Demographics
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Jul13

Travel to Work

posted by James

Duncan Smith from UCL CASA has produced some great maps of commuter flows. Each line represents the routes people follow to work (as a straight line from origin to destination) and whilst the map above covers nearly the all of southern Britain it shows just how dominant London is and just how...

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