The British Library has launched a portal to let people georeference thousands of historic maps in their collection which have been recently digitised, allowing the
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Hexagonal Map of London
This map is taken from an book “The Unification of London: The Need and the Remedy” written by John Leighton and published in 1895. London
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The Mapping London Christmas List 2013
Here’s some of our favourite maps we’ve reviewed over last 12 months, and where you can buy them: Running with Crayons is a fantastic name
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The Adventure Walks London Map
This pocket-sized colourful map, illustrated by Robert Littleford, specialises in highlighting interesting things for young explorers of the metropolis. There is a good mixture of
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Crossrail Tunnelling Update
Crossrail is a huge project tunnelling out a new railway line under central London. We featured the Crossrail “live” maps showing the location of the
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The Bastion of Liberty
This decorative map was published in or around 1946, as a commemorative keepsake for a weary city and a population that had just been through
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Mapping London House Prices and Rents
There is always interest in London’s astronomical rents and house prices. As with any global city, there is huge demand for somewhere to live in
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Pocket maps of Craft Beer and Coffee
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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