As a followup to yesterday’s article on the Soviet Cold War maps of London, above is an extract sent from the Landmark Information Group, which
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Soviet Military Maps of London
Yes the U.S.S.R. had its own maps of London, and other British cities, produced during Cold War era, i.e. the 1950s-1980s, to be perhaps used
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Classic Ordnance-Survey 1:25000 Map of London
The OpenStreetMap Out-of-Copyright (OOC) project aims to scan in old Ordnance Survey maps of the country, so that they may be of some use when
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Mapping your Digital Footprint
The above extract is an artwork from Jeremy Wood called My Ghost. Jeremy carried a GPS receiver around central London for nine years, gradually building
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The Twisted London Underground Map
I’m a sucker for alternative maps of the London Underground, and here’s a great one by Francisco Dans (see the original in high-resolution on Flickr)
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8-Bit London
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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