Maps of London appear in all sorts of unexpected places and on all kinds of objects. This year’s London Marathon finishers’ medal had an expected surprise for Mapping London, there is a map of the famous course engraved on the back of it. As well as a simplified outline of the...

Here’s some of our favourite maps we’ve reviewed over last 12 months, and where you can buy them: Running with Crayons is a fantastic name for an artist’s portfolio, and we loved the beautiful and colourful hand-drawn maps of London we looked at in April. You can buy the...

  Almost all the maps we have featured to date have fallen neatly within the M25 but, of course, London’s influence extends well beyond this physical boundary. One of the most significant impacts resulting from London’s rise as a global city is the need for increasing numbers...

UCL has opened a “pop-up” shop called Launchbox in Box Park Shoreditch which is designed to showcase “the hottest new designs emerging from UCL’s creative scene”. Ollie and I have had a few of our maps printed as posters which are available to purchase alongside...

I somehow missed, until now, this set of oblique-projected maps of popular parts of central London (thanks Chris Pearson for the tip!) They were produced for the Big Easter Egg Hunt in April last year. Each of the maps were of areas where Fabergé eggs were “hidden”. Most of the 12...

This is a view from the LondonTown Christmas Map. While it is essentially just “pins on a map” map with a number of icons relating to various seasonal attractions in town, it is presented very nicely and is of course very topical. You can toggle on and off sets of icons to view...

Crossrail are currently building a new deep-level railway line right across the heart of London. The mega-project recently launched the first two of their tunnel boring machines (TBMs), going from Paddington to Farringdon – there will be several more, for smaller drives across east...

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...

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...

The Mind the Map exhibition, at the London Transport Museum, doesn’t only feature historic maps, such as Beck’s “joke map” that we covered before. This extract above is a photo of on of the new art commissions for the exhibition. It’s called The Proustian Map of...

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...

The same day that James received a historic picture map of London that we eventually dated to around 1908, mainly based on the appearance of the 1908 Olympic Stadium in what is now White City, we noticed a Tweet from Collins about a new book that they had produced in conjunction with...

We featured the first official Olympic Park map at the beginning of the year, and it has already received an update which now includes pictures of the major buildings and locations of the sponsor marquees. Now, the recently revamped London 2012 website includes an interactive map, with flags...

This post was going to appear on Friday but I’ve brought it forward as tickets are rapidly disappearing – 2/3rds of them have already been snapped up. Our research lab here at UCL, CASA (the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis), is organising a one-day conference on 20 April, at...

The Mapping London blog is 1 year today! We launched on February 24, 2011. To celebrate, today we are featuring Google Maps, and how it currently looks like for the UCL campus in Bloomsbury, Central London, where the Mapping London authors are based. I think it wouldn’t be much of an...

LOCOG (The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) yesterday released a new map of the key Olympic Park in east London, as part of their 200-days-to-go celebrations. They also detailed new games-mode names for several of the venues, entrances and key roads in the park, such as...

Mapping London editors James and Ollie look back at some of the many maps produced each year in London to highlight the highs and lows of London life. As you can see there was more to 2011 than riots and Royal Weddings: hand drawn maps have never been so popular, nor have those showing...

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...

Readers may be interested in the London Mapping Festival, a grouping of several events relating to mapping in London, that takes place over the next year. The launch event is at the British Computer Society in central London, in the evening of Monday 6 June. More details can be found on the...