London’s Roman Roads
Feb25

London’s Roman...

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Here is part of a map, The Map of Roman Britain, Second Edition, published by the Ordnance Survey in 1931 and scanned by Bibliographics. The extract above shows the area taken roughly up by the modern Greater London conurbation, along with the surrounding area. The black triangles and circles...

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Mapping Private Hire Cabs in London
Feb05

Mapping Private Hire Cabs in London

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Ed Manley (UCL Geomatic Engineering) produced this great map of private hire vehicles in London (note my avoidance of the “T” word). He was able to obtain the GPS tracks from a large company’s fleet of drivers. There are 700,000 journeys on this map with the most popular roads in red, falling to orange, yellow, white then grey. As Ed says: “The most popular routes are along Euston Road, Park Lane and Embankment, which may be somewhat expected, but make for a stark constrast with respect to the flow of most traffic in London.  The connection with Canary Wharf comes out strongly, an indication of the company’s...

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