A Celestial Map
Nov26

A Celestial Map

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Ever thought the ribbon of the River Thames, weaving its way through London, looks a little like the band of the Milky Way galaxy, streaking across the night sky? Me neither, but it’s a novel idea that has inspired “Issue C” of Curiocity, an occasional series of maps of...

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Tube Map Circuit Board – Working Radio
Nov16

Tube Map Circuit Boa...

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We’ve featured at least three maps since the last one derived from the tube network, so we must be due for another interpretation of London’s most famous map, and here is an innovative one – Yuri Suzuki‘s London Underground Circuit Map Radio. It’s a working...

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London’s Twitter Tongues
Nov02

London’s Twitter Tongues

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Last week Ed Manley and I published a map showing the top 10 twitter languages in London. To our surprise it made it to page 3 of the Metro (the next day was a monkey that looks like Einstein, so we are in good company) and was picked up by many of the national newspapers and science press. With all the hype surrounding the basic map we wanted to do something extra special for the mappinglondon blog, so Ollie has worked his web-mapping magic to create a fully interactive version in order that you can see the landmarks and streets the tweets correspond to. The map contains the geographic locations of about 3.3 million geo-located tweets...

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