This map is taken from an book “The Unification of London: The Need and the Remedy” written by John Leighton and published in 1895. London
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The Mapping London Christmas List 2013
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
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The Adventure Walks London Map
This pocket-sized colourful map, illustrated by Robert Littleford, specialises in highlighting interesting things for young explorers of the metropolis. There is a good mixture of
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Crossrail Tunnelling Update
Crossrail is a huge project tunnelling out a new railway line under central London. We featured the Crossrail “live” maps showing the location of the
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The Bastion of Liberty
This decorative map was published in or around 1946, as a commemorative keepsake for a weary city and a population that had just been through
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Pocket maps of Craft Beer and Coffee
London’s craft beer and microbrewery scene is burgeoning, and trendy independent coffee shops are also popping up everywhere, so what better way to encapsulate this
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Cab Communities
Dr Ed Manley (@EdThink), a research associate on the Mechanicity project here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, created this dramatic, colourful graphic (excerpt
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Wonderground Map
Above is a small part of the “Wonderground Map of London Town” – MacDonald Gill created this fantastic decorative map, which was commissioned to provide
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Carte Blanc
Here’s a lovely hand-drawn map of central London with a linguistic twist. It has been commissioned by the Brasserie Blanc restaurant group to celebrate Trafalgar
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London’s Localities
The above extract (click for full-size version) is from a map that we’ve wanted to feature for a long time, ever since an fascinating talk
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UK Data Explorer: Maps of London’s 2011 Census
One of my earliest projects at UCL, back in 2009, was to create a customisable online map of all the 2001 Census key statistics. The
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Victorian London in Incredible Detail
Here’s a real treat. The National Library of Scotland’s Map Department, supported by David Rumsey, have taken some very high-resolution scans of the Ordnance Survey
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