Strava, one of a number of services that walkers, runners and cyclists can use with their smartphones, recording and uploading their routes, has released a
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London Dissected
London dissected is the latest brilliant edition of the Curiocity maps series. For the princely sum of £2.50 you can purchase this gory interpretation of
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Simplifying London’s Network – “Mappi Lundi”, A Hand Drawn Map
Mappa Lundi is a hand-drawn map of central London which simplifies the street network, districts, parks and tourist attractions into a simple, pseudo-grid like structure.
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Violent Crime Hotspots in London
This is an extract of a map, by Matt Ashby, formerly of the UCL SECReT (Security and Crime Science) lab, that takes police.uk open data
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Pictorial Map from The A to Z 1938 London Street Atlas
The above map is an extract from a reproduction of the “Pictorial Map of London” published in 1938 by what was then known as the
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Anthropocene Exhibition
Stephen Walter, most famous for his “Hub” map of London, a fantastically detailed hand drawn map of London with a distinctive repeating style and thousands
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WeareData Map of London’s Data Leakage
UbiSoft have created this compelling live map of London’s sensor and social media data, as part of a promotion for their upcoming game “Watch Dogs”.
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Thames Estuary Airport Schemes
Almost all the maps we have featured to date have fallen neatly within the M25 but, of course, London’s influence extends well beyond this
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UCL Launchbox
UCL has opened a “pop-up” shop called Launchbox in Box Park Shoreditch which is designed to showcase “the hottest new designs emerging from UCL’s creative scene”. Ollie and I
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Second Languages
A map full of striking patterns, from Savills’ analyst Neal Hudson. It shows the areas of London where, for each area, the second most popular
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London In Motion
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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