London boasts over 300 different spoken languages – more than any other city in the world. The capital’s lingua franca, of course, remains English: 78%
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Lost London
London has a great collection of grand buildings, famous bridges and other urban objects that delight tourists and residents alike, but there’s quite a few
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Data Maps with Force Layout
Alexander Brett has created this interactive map of London using the D3 visualisation framework and its “Force Layout” view. This places the data points (London
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Network Rail Project Map
Network Rail, who own most of London’s “heavy rail” track, have created this graphic showing where in London they are improving the rail network (short
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Art Deco London Map
Following on from their Brutalist London Map, Blue Crow Media have moved back a few decades and produced this new map of Art Deco London.
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Food Map of Waterloo
I’ve seen maps of food locations in London before, but not one actually made of food. Food 4 Thought, created by artist Ali Zaidi a
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London’s Canals & Rivers
These attractive hand-drawn maps have been produced for a pocket guide “London’s Canals & Rivers” published by the Canal & River Trust by illustrator and
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Steel Tube Map
The tube map is almost certainly London’s most widely produced and collected map, with many millions of the pocket version being issued for free every
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Dear Data – My London
This is one of the many data visualisation and design postcards that Stefanie Posavec and Georgia Lupi sent each other of the course of a
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The Map in the Shard
The Shard, London’s tallest building, has a viewing platform at the top, the The View from the Shard. To access the platform, you use two
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Locating London’s Past
As an update to our previous feature on a replica map set of the John Rocque eighteenth century map of London, we feature the Locating
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Winding Streets
Here’s an attractive map commissioned by The Watch Gallery to highlight some of the key places in London, in the development of timekeeping. From the
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