Charles Booth’s 1899 Poverty Map of London is a seminal work in the history of London maps and the development of geodemographics (characterising people based
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London’s Protected Vistas
A map, tucked away on the GLA’s London Plan website, reveals graphically the legally “protected vistas” in London – generally views from certain parks in
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MurderMap
MurderMap is a manually curated map of homicides in London, based on records from the Central Criminal Court, aka the Old Bailey. The map’s creators
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Changing Deprivation in London
Chris Gale, a fellow UCL Geographer, has produced these maps showing the change in deprivation scores in London between 2007 and 2010. They show a
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1948 Olympic Competitors’ Map
I came across this map of London train lines and underground routes in 1948, part of a guide and travel-card given to competitors at last
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Animals on the Underground
It’s part of human nature to see patterns where none exist. If you stare long enough at the London Underground, strange creatures might start to
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Before/After Aerial Photos of London
Using the visualisation technique used by ABC Australia and the New York Times to show before/after photographs of the impact of the Japan Tsunami, below
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Typographic London
Some of the most popular posts on spatialanalysis are about typographic maps. I thought it would be cool to put together some of my favourite’s
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A City of Tweets
This is another great map animation from our friends in CASA. It is a year old now (almost to the day) but it remains one
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The OpenStreetMap of London
The OpenStreetMap project started in London in 2004 and has since grown to be a huge map of the whole world. It can be thought
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The London Underground Network in Detail
The world is not short of London underground network maps, there is something very appealing about the mix of lines, curves, dashes and circles, all
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John Snow’s Cholera Map
Embedded below is a high resolution version of John Snow’s 1854 map of the Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) cholera outbreak. Widely cited as the
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