The epic graphic novel entitled “From Hell” is summarised in the following way: “An unflinching recreation of Jack the Ripper’s mutilation of five Whitechapel prostitutes in 1888 is the core of this graphic novel. Jack acts as “midwife to the 20th century”,...

Last week I noticed a black and white maze on the wall next to the lifts at Caledonian Road station, it had a red cross and was numbered as if it were part of a series. After a bit of web searching (and then the discovery of a pamphlet) I found out it was one of 270 artworks by Mark...

David Ryan Robinson has produced this amazingly detailed hand drawn “map” of London. It was originally produced as a silk screen print and depicts a densely packed view of London with landmarks you’ll recognise alongside some slightly fantastical looking creatures. We are...

When we started the Mapping London one of our “ground rules” was not to turn it into a blog about Tube maps. On the 150th birthday of the London Underground, we are happy to make an exception. Here are some of our favourite maps and data visualisations about the World’s...

It seems there is no escaping typographic maps of London, the idea has really taken off over the past couple of years. Axis Maps have been making typographic maps of other cities for a while now and they have finally created one for London. The name of each road has been repeated along its...

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...

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...

It’s lovely to see a brand new hand-drawn map of London in this age of computer-generated graphics. This one has been produced by Michael Hill of Maps Illustrated for this week’s TV Guide and shows the Diamond Jubilee procession route up Whitehall and down The Mall. The effort...

I recently managed to get my hands on one of my favourite maps of London. It is produced by G.W. Bacon and Co. Ltd and dates from around 1908. I like it for its clear cartography, the selection of pseudo 3D buildings (nice to see UCL in there) and the simplicity of the street network (only...

TfL have produced a nice range of maps to promote walking instead of public transport (especially during the Olympics).  The maps use different cartography to the other walking maps TfL have produced,  and feature a nice range of pseudo-3D buildings and key landmarks. There are also 4...

Perhaps inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover (maybe a favourite for the commute?), Jon Reades (from UCL CASA- of course!) has created this beautiful infographic depicting “a week in the life” of the London transit system. Like all great data...

People often say “I waited ages for a bus and then they all turned up at once”. As the map above shows if all the timetabled buses in London literally did show up at the same time you would be stuck in an impressive traffic jam. It represents the 114 thousand or so bus trips that...

As a cyclist in London you can do your best to avoid left turning buses and dozy pedestrians. One thing you can’t really avoid though is pollution (although I accept cyclists probably aren’t much worse off than pedestrians and drivers in this respect). To illustrate this I have...

This* splendid typographic London Underground map arrived in the mappinglondon post tray this morning. Scott at Fadeout Design has simply replaced the track lines with the station names. From a distance it looks like a charcoal sketch of Beck’s iconic design, but close up it has loads...

Step aside Stephen Walter, over 270 UCL students (and staff) have created their own interactive hand drawn map of London. Organised by two students Alistair Leak and Ian Morton from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, the map has brought out some great insights into what people think of...

Mapping London Life is the title of the talk I gave at a great event organised by the Londonist and hosted by TAG Fine Arts. Surrounded by the wonderful maps in “The Art of Mapping” exhibition and speaking alongside John Kennedy and Stephen Walter the audience and I were in good...

Duncan Smith, a colleague of ours, has written a great review of the “Shaping London” book for his Urban Geographics blog. He has kindly let us share it with you here. I have recently been enjoying Terry Farrell’s book “Shaping London: the patterns and forms that make the...

There is a shop in London that I always peer into when I walk past but have always resisted going in as it presented a real risk of bankruptcy. With a couple of hours (the minimum required I thought) to spare last weekend I thought it was finally time to go and look around the cartophiles...

A few months back I had the honour of being asked to approve the use of a couple of excerpts from my London Surname Map in The Times Atlas of London. The wait was finally over last week when I received my copy in the post. It is a great book and an essential guide to the city. The Atlas...

This week, thousands of teenagers across the capital will receive GCSE results that will likely have an impact on the life decisions they take over the coming years. Back in March the full list of the 2010 GCSE results were released and I mapped them alongside an indicator of child poverty....

Aside from the odd rumble of a tube train, or perhaps a burst pipe in winter, Londoners often overlook the goings on beneath their feet. For this reason many are unaware that the city is built on a network of rivers and streams- each one progressively covered over as the city developed. These...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I wanted to steer clear of the iconic London Underground map because it is always featured on map blogs. I have already failed miserably thanks to London Peculiar posting this really great hand-drawn version. It was created in 1951 by an American in the army who clearly enjoyed joking about...

The map is a cartogram showing the level of child poverty for each of London’s councils in addition to their predicted loss in revenue spending power resulting from the recent government cuts. As you can see the shapes of some of the poorest boroughs in London have been enlarged to...

Some of us at CASA can’t get enough of the Barclay’s Cycle Hire data. We have had Ollie‘s hugely successful flow maps, journeytime heat maps, and now the the Sociable Physicist himself, Martin Austwick has created this stunning animation of the bikes. The TFL data release...

Buried in the London Datastore are the population estimates for each of the London Boroughs between 2001 – 2030. They predict a declining population for most boroughs with the exception of a few to the east. I was surprised by this general decline and also the numbers involved- I...

Paying to use London’s roads is not a new idea. I have just come across a map showing turnpike gates (tolls) which were like the 18th Century equivalent of congestion charging. Instead of a single zone there appear to have been 16, each demanding a fee. It is unclear whether cyclists(!)...