It’s a bit silly, and not exactly very helpful as a map for navigation – but it’s also a lot of fun. Brett Camper has
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Tube Maps at Funny Angles
The “Beck” London Underground map is probably the most iconic and recognisable map of London in the world. As such, it is a favourite for
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Sense and the City at the Transport Museum
A new exhibition – Sense and the City – opens today at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden. It includes a number of transport data
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TubeViz – Tube Station Passenger Footfall
From Daniela Krug and Lars Malmqvist comes TubeViz – a nice visualisation of passenger entries to, and exits from, tube stations (not Overground or DLR)
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Telecoms Clutter Map
This map of mobile phone signal strength, produced by the GeoInformation Group this year, was one of the graphics featured in the exhibition that accompanied
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Tweets in London
Many Twitter messages, or “tweets”, are sent with latitude/longitude information, allowing an insight into the places where the most amount of tweeting happens. For a
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A Multidimensional Geodemographic Map
Daniel Lewis, a Geography Ph.D student at UCL, has produced this map of inner London, using multidimensional scaling (MDS) to simultaneously depict 41 geodemographic measures of each area.
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London Cycle Map Wins Funding
Congratulations to Cycle Lifestyle, who have won £6000 in funding for “creating a colour coded Tube style map of the Capital’s cycling network” in the
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London Mapping Festival
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
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The Crumpled Map of London
This is the Crumpled City Map of London. Part of a series, including New York, Paris and Rome, and produced by an Italian company, the
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The Booth Poverty Map
Charles Booth’s 1899 Poverty Map of London is a seminal work in the history of London maps and the development of geodemographics (characterising people based
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London’s Protected Vistas
A map, tucked away on the GLA’s London Plan website, reveals graphically the legally “protected vistas” in London – generally views from certain parks in
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