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Year: 2012

Map of London Social and Functional Analysis 1943

20 August 2012 Ollie Historic

[Updated] This map of London districts, was intended to be used as a grand “masterplan” of how a post-WW2 London could look. Each district appears

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A Tube Map Inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

6 August 2012 Ollie Art, Tube

Above is an extract from a map of the London Underground, drawn by Max Roberts in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh – with sets

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A-Z London 2012 Venues Atlas

31 July 2012 Ollie Events

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

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Summer 2012 Map

30 July 2012 James Events, Tourist

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

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Olympic Venues as an Infographic Map

25 July 2012 Ollie Tourist

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

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Mike Hall’s London Boroughs

23 July 2012 Ollie Art, Tourist

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

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Recce

17 July 2012 Ollie Data

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

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Travel to Work

13 July 2012 James People

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

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Mind the Map: A Map by Macdonald Gill

22 June 2012 Ollie Art, Historic

This is an extract of a map produced in 1928 for London Transport by Macdonald Gill. He produced many maps in this “flowery” style, including

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Jenni Sparks: Hand-Drawn Map of London

15 June 2012 Ollie Art

This wonderful map (above is just an extract) has been drawn by artist & illustrator Jenni Sparks. It’s a hand-drawn map of central and inner-city

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Mind The Map: The Land of Hopeful Commuters

14 June 2012 Ollie Events

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

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A Map for the Diamond Jubilee

31 May 2012 James Events

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

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