Perhaps inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album cover (maybe a favourite for the commute?), Jon Reades (from UCL CASA– of course!) has created this beautiful
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New Olympic Park Map
We featured the first official Olympic Park map at the beginning of the year, and it has already received an update which now includes pictures
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Mapped: Every Bus Trip in London
People often say “I waited ages for a bus and then they all turned up at once”. As the map above shows if all the
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Stamen Design’s Watercolour Map
Stamen Design are a bespoke design and technology company based in San Francisco. They have a reputation for creating wonderful looking maps, often with OpenStreetMap
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London Blitz Map
The image above is a photo of part of a large map of London, created just after the Second World War and showing buildings that
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CASA Smart Cities
This post was going to appear on Friday but I’ve brought it forward as tickets are rapidly disappearing – 2/3rds of them have already been
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Old Maps Online
We probably don’t feature enough old maps of London on here – we tend to go for the latest glitzy maps, but to make up,
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Tweets vs Flickr Photos – Eric Fischer’s City Maps
Eric Fischer produced this interesting data map of London a while back. The map is entirely made of of location coordinates included on Twitter tweets,
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One Year of Mapping London
The Mapping London blog is 1 year today! We launched on February 24, 2011. To celebrate, today we are featuring Google Maps, and how it
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London Cycle Hire and Pollution
As a cyclist in London you can do your best to avoid left turning buses and dozy pedestrians. One thing you can’t really avoid though
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The Index of Multiple Deprivation as a Map
“Geodemographics of Housing in Great Britain – a new visualisation in the style of Charles Booth’s map” is a map that I have produced that
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Just the Letters
James previously featured a tube map made up of just names of the stations. He’s also featured other London typographic maps. Exploring a little further,
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