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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Stephen Walter’s Hub Map of London
The above is just a small extract from Stephen Walter’s “Hub” Map of London, a hand-drawn map of painstaking detail, drawn during 2007-8. You can
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Mapping From Hell: Pt1
The epic graphic novel entitled “From Hell” is summarised in the following way: “An unflinching recreation of Jack the Ripper’s mutilation of five Whitechapel prostitutes
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Middlesex University Campus Map
As a followup to last week’s post about university campus maps in London, my attention was drawn to the Middlesex University campus map which I
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University Campus Maps
[Update – additional article on Middlesex University] I was talking to the UCL cartographer recently and he mentioned that there aren’t many dedicated cartographers left
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London’s Oyster Card Flows
Here is an animation that Ollie created a couple of years ago for the “Sense and the City” exhibition at the London Transport Museum.
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Running with Crayons Maps
These two artwork maps (East London above, and South-East London below) were created by Brighton artist Tilly of Running for Crayons, for the Observer newspaper
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Art on the Underground: Labyrinth
Last week I noticed a black and white maze on the wall next to the lifts at Caledonian Road station, it had a red cross
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