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
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 Guide to London 1908
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
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Mind the Map: Circuit Diagram
A major new exhibition on mapping the London Underground – Mind the Map – opened last week at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Mapping
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Tube Map Sticky Tape!
Now this is just excellent – it’s a roll of tape with a custom-designed map of the London Underground (and DLR & Overground) on it.
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New Olympic Park Map
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
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Stamen Design’s Watercolour Map
Stamen Design are a bespoke design and technology company based in San Francisco. They have a reputation for creating wonderful looking maps, often with OpenStreetMap
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London Blitz Map
The image above is a photo of part of a large map of London, created just after the Second World War and showing buildings that
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CASA Smart Cities
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
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Old Maps Online
We probably don’t feature enough old maps of London on here – we tend to go for the latest glitzy maps, but to make up,
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Tweets vs Flickr Photos – Eric Fischer’s City Maps
Eric Fischer produced this interesting data map of London a while back. The map is entirely made of of location coordinates included on Twitter tweets,
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One Year of Mapping London
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
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