Readers may be interested in the London Mapping Festival, a grouping of several events relating to mapping in London, that takes place over the next
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The Crumpled Map of London
This is the Crumpled City Map of London. Part of a series, including New York, Paris and Rome, and produced by an Italian company, the
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The Booth Poverty Map
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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