London’s craft beer and microbrewery scene is burgeoning, and trendy independent coffee shops are also popping up everywhere, so what better way to encapsulate this
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Cab Communities
Dr Ed Manley (@EdThink), a research associate on the Mechanicity project here at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, created this dramatic, colourful graphic (excerpt
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London’s Wasted Heat
A huge amount of energy is wasted each year in London as heat escapes from our buildings in winter or is pumped out from
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Wonderground Map
Above is a small part of the “Wonderground Map of London Town” – MacDonald Gill created this fantastic decorative map, which was commissioned to provide
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London’s Health
A great new resource has just been released by the Wellcome Library. They have meticulously scanned “Medical Officer of Health” reports for London between 1848 and
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Carte Blanc
Here’s a lovely hand-drawn map of central London with a linguistic twist. It has been commissioned by the Brasserie Blanc restaurant group to celebrate Trafalgar
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London’s Localities
The above extract (click for full-size version) is from a map that we’ve wanted to feature for a long time, ever since an fascinating talk
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UK Data Explorer: Maps of London’s 2011 Census
One of my earliest projects at UCL, back in 2009, was to create a customisable online map of all the 2001 Census key statistics. The
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Victorian London in Incredible Detail
Here’s a real treat. The National Library of Scotland’s Map Department, supported by David Rumsey, have taken some very high-resolution scans of the Ordnance Survey
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The London Thames
The London Thames is a new poster – a small extract is shown here – created by David Fathers, which features illustrations of the 16
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NikeFuel Map
After reviewing many fine maps produced by others, it’s always nice to feature our own work once in a while. Above is an extract of
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Rocque’s Map of Georgian London, 1746
Mapping London has always been most interested in modern maps of London, however we are happy to make the occasional exception, and so when this
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