This is a simple but effective borough-by-borough cartogram of the median house price in London. The map appears on the London data store but is
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Half a Million Journeys on the London Underground
This animation from Will Gallia shows over 500,000 individual journeys on the London Underground network, it’s a 5% sample of Oyster-card journeys during a week
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Luminocity3D
Luminocity3D, an “urban density and dynamics explorer”, is a interactive mapping website developed by UCL CASA’s Duncan Smith, which shows a number of urban demographics
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Exotic Adornments and Old Maps: The Art of Kristjana S Williams
Artist Kristjana S Williams, originally from Iceland but now based in west London, specialises in collages of vividly coloured, exotic creatures. A number of her
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Tour Bus Maps!
[Updated – Changed prices and links for 2016.] You’re in London for only 24 hours. You’ve never been here before. You want to see as
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London in Miniature: Mogg’s 1806 Pocket Map
From Geographicus, a US map dealer, by way of a tweet by Rentonomy, an article in CityMetric and a collaboration with Wikimedia, comes this high-resolution
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Barbican: Before and After the Blitz
Here is an interesting concept by illustrator Russell Bell. He’s taken a pre-WWII (World War 2) monochrome map of the Barbican area of London (the
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The Rivers of London
This is a new work by Stephen Walter, in his characteristic hand-annotated, monochromatic style. It features London’s watery features, in particular the many waterways. The
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Legible London Walking Maps
The Legible London project has been producing clear, attractive maps of parts of London, to help people navigate unfamiliar streets by foot, for a few
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The Bastion of Liberty – Excerpt
We featured Lee’s Bastion of Liberty map, a detailed portrait of London to remind the war-weary 1940s/50s public of the great city that they lived
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A Vignelli-Style Tube Map
Back in August, one half of Mapping London went on holiday to New York City, and, after I got back, I wrote a few posts
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Covent Garden
Covent Garden is one of London’s main traditional shopping precincts, with the Covent Garden Market building itself, once London’s main wholesale fruit and vegetable market,
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