London boasts over 300 different spoken languages – more than any other city in the world. The capital’s lingua franca, of course, remains English: 78%
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London: The Information Capital
London has been home to many great cartographers and has been the subject of many stunning maps that depict all aspects of life in the city. Drawing
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Planning and the Great Fire
The Wellcome Image Library contains a number of interesting maps of London that are all free to use. I recently spotted a couple relating to
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Victorian London in Incredible Detail
Here’s a real treat. The National Library of Scotland’s Map Department, supported by David Rumsey, have taken some very high-resolution scans of the Ordnance Survey
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UCL Launchbox
UCL has opened a “pop-up” shop called Launchbox in Box Park Shoreditch which is designed to showcase “the hottest new designs emerging from UCL’s creative scene”. Ollie and I
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Mapping From Hell: Pt1
The epic graphic novel entitled “From Hell” is summarised in the following way: “An unflinching recreation of Jack the Ripper’s mutilation of five Whitechapel prostitutes
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Silk Screen Hand-Drawn Map of London
David Ryan Robinson has produced this amazingly detailed hand drawn “map” of London. It was originally produced as a silk screen print and depicts a densely
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Mapping Private Hire Cabs in London
Ed Manley (UCL Geomatic Engineering) produced this great map of private hire vehicles in London (note my avoidance of the “T” word). He was able
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London’s Twitter Tongues
Last week Ed Manley and I published a map showing the top 10 twitter languages in London. To our surprise it made it to page
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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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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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London: A Year in Maps
Mapping London editors James and Ollie look back at some of the many maps produced each year in London to highlight the highs and lows
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