Mike Hall, illustrator and designer, has been painstakingly creating large poster maps of each of the London boroughs, largely by hand. Each map has a
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Recce
Recce is an iPhone app which locates you on a map and shows you various POIs (points of interest) on demand such as local coffee
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Travel to Work
Duncan Smith from UCL CASA has produced some great maps of commuter flows. Each line represents the routes people follow to work (as a straight line from
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Mind the Map: A Map by Macdonald Gill
This is an extract of a map produced in 1928 for London Transport by Macdonald Gill. He produced many maps in this “flowery” style, including
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Jenni Sparks: Hand-Drawn Map of London
This wonderful map (above is just an extract) has been drawn by artist & illustrator Jenni Sparks. It’s a hand-drawn map of central and inner-city
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Mind The Map: The Land of Hopeful Commuters
The Mind the Map exhibition, at the London Transport Museum, doesn’t only feature historic maps, such as Beck’s “joke map” that we covered before. This
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A Map for the Diamond Jubilee
It’s lovely to see a brand new hand-drawn map of London in this age of computer-generated graphics. This one has been produced by Michael Hill
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A Guide to London 1908
The same day that James received a historic picture map of London that we eventually dated to around 1908, mainly based on the appearance of
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Bacon’s Picture Map of London
I recently managed to get my hands on one of my favourite maps of London. It is produced by G.W. Bacon and Co. Ltd and
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Mind the Map: Circuit Diagram
A major new exhibition on mapping the London Underground – Mind the Map – opened last week at the Transport Museum in Covent Garden. Mapping
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Tube Map Sticky Tape!
Now this is just excellent – it’s a roll of tape with a custom-designed map of the London Underground (and DLR & Overground) on it.
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TfL Why Not Walk It? Maps
TfL have produced a nice range of maps to promote walking instead of public transport (especially during the Olympics). The maps use different cartography to
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