This animation, produced by Jay Gordon, does a great job of capturing the daily flows of London’s commuters. It combines the 16 million or so daily
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Where London Runs
This is a screenshot of a heatmap of runs carried out in central London, using the Nike+ training “app” which utilises a phone’s built-in GPS
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Computer Game Sprite Map of Zone 1
Here’s a map of Zone 1 London (concentrating on the tube lines) constructed with sprites from the old-skool (80s!) console game Super Mario Bros 3.
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Mapping Private Hire Cabs in London
Ed Manley (UCL Geomatic Engineering) produced this great map of private hire vehicles in London (note my avoidance of the “T” word). He was able
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London’s Twitter Tongues
Last week Ed Manley and I published a map showing the top 10 twitter languages in London. To our surprise it made it to page
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The Tube Map: A tool for promoting social equality?
Most government statistics are mapped according to official geographical units such as wards or lower super output areas. Whilst such units are essential for data
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Recce
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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Mapped: Every Bus Trip in London
People often say “I waited ages for a bus and then they all turned up at once”. As the map above shows if all the
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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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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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London Cycle Hire and Pollution
As a cyclist in London you can do your best to avoid left turning buses and dozy pedestrians. One thing you can’t really avoid though
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The Index of Multiple Deprivation as a Map
“Geodemographics of Housing in Great Britain – a new visualisation in the style of Charles Booth’s map” is a map that I have produced that
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