Many Twitter messages, or “tweets”, are sent with latitude/longitude information, allowing an insight into the places where the most amount of tweeting happens. For a
More...
A Multidimensional Geodemographic Map
Daniel Lewis, a Geography Ph.D student at UCL, has produced this map of inner London, using multidimensional scaling (MDS) to simultaneously depict 41 geodemographic measures of each area.
More...
London Cycle Map Wins Funding
Congratulations to Cycle Lifestyle, who have won £6000 in funding for “creating a colour coded Tube style map of the Capital’s cycling network” in the
More...
London Mapping Festival
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
More...
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
More...
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
More...
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
More...
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
More...
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
More...
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
More...
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
More...
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
More...