Here’s a map of Zone 1 London (concentrating on the tube lines) constructed with sprites from the old-skool (80s!) console game Super Mario Bros 3.
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Silk Screen Hand-Drawn Map of London
David Ryan Robinson has produced this amazingly detailed hand drawn “map” of London. It was originally produced as a silk screen print and depicts a densely
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London’s Roman Roads
Here is part of a map, The Map of Roman Britain, Second Edition, published by the Ordnance Survey in 1931 and scanned by Bibliographics. The
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Mapping Private Hire Cabs in London
Ed Manley (UCL Geomatic Engineering) produced this great map of private hire vehicles in London (note my avoidance of the “T” word). He was able
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The Big Egg Hunt Maps
I somehow missed, until now, this set of oblique-projected maps of popular parts of central London (thanks Chris Pearson for the tip!) They were produced
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A Food Typographic Map
This work, by Curious Maps, is a typographical map of London, with each area replaced with words representing a (stereo)typical dish for that area. My
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Mind the Maps: Celebrating 150 Years of the Tube
When we started the Mapping London one of our “ground rules” was not to turn it into a blog about Tube maps. On the 150th birthday of
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London Christmas Map
This is a view from the LondonTown Christmas Map. While it is essentially just “pins on a map” map with a number of icons relating
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Mapping the London Blitz
The London Blitz, from 1940-1941, was a traumatic event that changed London’s landscape for ever. Until now, maps of the impact sights from the bombs
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A Celestial Map
Ever thought the ribbon of the River Thames, weaving its way through London, looks a little like the band of the Milky Way galaxy, streaking
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Tube Map Circuit Board – Working Radio
We’ve featured at least three maps since the last one derived from the tube network, so we must be due for another interpretation of London’s
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London’s Twitter Tongues
Last week Ed Manley and I published a map showing the top 10 twitter languages in London. To our surprise it made it to page
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