London

MapTube
I should have mentioned MapTube long ago; Andrew Hudson-Smith wrote to me about it in May: MapTube, the new mapping site from the guys at Digital Urban and CASA at University College London to view, overlay, mix and match… »
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 6:11 AM
Categories: Hacks & Mashups, London
Sony’s Subway Earphones Ads
A Sony ad campaign for its Walkman digital audio players shows subway network maps made from black Sony earphones. (Because they can’t be white earphones, silly.) In addition to the New York subway map poster making the rounds, there… »
Posted on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Categories: London, Mass Transit, New York
Thermal London
This is interesting: thermal images of London from space, from the air, and from a high vantage point. Part of a site dedicated to thermal imagery of London, but this page is what’s of interest to us. At right,… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Categories: London, Satellite & Aerial
Your Wallet Is Your Map
The Tubemap Wallet is one of those ideas that sounds really neat — even practical — in theory: a special wallet that folds out to reveal a map of either the London Underground or the New York subway. The… »
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2007 at 9:53 PM
Categories: London, Mass Transit, New York
London’s Kerning
London’s Kerning is a map of London done in type — you have to step back from the large (153 cm × 101.5 cm), limited-edition poster to recognize the city. Interesting. Via Kottke; more at Moon River…. »
Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 8:14 PM
Categories: Art, London
London Pedestrian Map
The London Pedestrian Routemap is a work in progress the aim of which “is to encourage walking in London. It does this by providing a simple, memorable picture of key walking routes in the Capital. At present there is… »
Posted on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 10:21 AM
Categories: London
A Blog for ‘London: A Life in Maps’
There are hardly any posts up yet, but the London: A Life in Maps exhibition now has an accompanying blog. Via MapHist. Previously: London: A Life in Maps — Now Open and Online; Peter Barber on “London: A Life in… »
Posted on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at 8:11 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Blogs, London, London: A Life in Maps
London: A Life in Maps — Now Open and Online
The British Library exhibition, “London: A Life in Maps,” is now open, both in real life and online. The virtual exhibition that Peter Barber referred to is now online as part of the overall London: A Life in Maps web… »
Posted on Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 4:03 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Hacks & Mashups, London, London: A Life in Maps
Ackroyd on Mapping London
For an exhibition that doesn’t even open until next week, “London: A Life in Maps” is generating all sorts of attention — it’s the launching-off point for this essay on mapping London by Peter Ackroyd in next week’s New Statesman,… »
Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 11:02 PM
Categories: London
Peter Barber on ‘London: A Life in Maps’
Peter Barber — Peter Barber! — writes: London: A Life in Maps will be accompanied by a virtual exhibition, available on the BL website, for people who can’t visit. Though the emphasis of the exhibition will be on the great… »
Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006 at 8:37 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, London, London: A Life in Maps
More About ‘London: A Life in Maps’
The Telegraph has more about “London: A Life in Maps,” the upcoming exhibit at the British Library (see previous entry). It opens on the 24th. Via MapHist…. »
Posted on Monday, November 13, 2006 at 4:30 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, London, London: A Life in Maps
Wikimedia London Underground Maps
In response to Transport for London’s crackdown on London tube map remixes (previous entry), the Wikimedia Commons is putting together a series of freely available maps of the London Underground. The maps are generated using PHP to process GPS… »
Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 10:05 AM
Categories: London, Mass Transit
London: A Life in Maps
Coming up at the British Library and running from November 24 to March 4, an exhibition called “London: A Life in Maps”: “Maps, views, letters, and ephemera from the British Library collections, show the city’s transformation from a Roman… »
Posted on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 8:28 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, London, London: A Life in Maps
Credit-Card-Sized Stainless-Steel Subway Maps
Sure, laminated paper versions are cheaper, but a credit-card-sized, stainless steel map of the New York subway or London Underground is, well … it’s something, isn’t it? It’s fifteen bucks, anyway. Via Gizmodo, where they seem to think it’s… »
Posted on Friday, October 20, 2006 at 5:27 PM
Categories: London, Mass Transit, Miscellany, New York
The Map of Early Modern London
The Map of Early Modern London is an interactive annotated map of London based on the 16th-century “Agas” woodcut map, with clickable points (akin to Google Maps pushpins) that take you to more detailed information about a given location…. »
Posted on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 8:35 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, London
Phyllis Pearsall
The 100th anniversary of Phyllis Pearsall’s birth was celebrated in the UK on Monday. She founded the A-Z Map Company in 1936 to publish a (now-legendary) map of London — which she compiled by walking 3,000 miles’ worth of… »
Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 11:41 AM
Categories: London, Publishers
Simon Elvins’s “Silent London”
Simon Elvins’s “Silent London”: “Using information the government has collected on noise levels within London, a map has been plotted of the capital’s most silent spaces. The map intends to reveal a hidden landscape of quiet spaces and shows… »
Posted on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 at 8:26 AM
Categories: Art, London
17th-Century London in Google Earth
Old meets new: Google Earth layers for London in 1666 and 1690. Suddenly the purpose behind e_Perimetron becomes clear. Via Things Magazine…. »
Posted on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at 11:54 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Georeferencing, Google Earth, London
Old London Maps
Old London Maps is a gem of a collection of antique maps and engravings depicting London from medieval times to the nineteenth century. Greenwood’s map of London (pictured at right; see previous entry) is there, as are many others. Thanks… »
Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 at 9:17 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, London
London Poverty in 1898 and 2001
Charles Booth’s late-nineteenth-century map of London poverty (see previous entry) is getting some additional attention lately: Boing Boing and Cartography link to this page, which compares Booth’s map with a 2001 map of London, and this Economist article, which discusses… »
Posted on Monday, May 8, 2006 at 10:23 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, London
iPod Subway Maps
If you’ve got an iPod with a colour screen, you can put subway maps on it. It’s a simple matter to put digital images on an iPod; where maps are concerned, though, it’s a challenge to make sure they’re legible… »
Posted on Friday, August 12, 2005 at 8:08 AM
Categories: Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Mass Transit, Mobile Devices, New York, San Francisco
London Underground Line Closures
Feòrag’s London Underground map (343 KB JPEG) edits out the lines that were closed due to yesterday’s bombing incidents. Via Boing Boing…. »
Posted on Friday, July 22, 2005 at 7:50 AM
Categories: London, London Bombings, Mass Transit
London WWII Bomb Damage Maps
During World War Two, London County Council kept maps showing the damage caused to the city by German bombs. They did it by hand-colouring Ordnance Survey maps, each colour representing a certain amount of damage. Now, the BBC reports, the… »
Posted on Friday, July 15, 2005 at 10:35 AM
Categories: Books, Historical Maps, London
Tube Disruptions Movie
Fed up with delays on the London Underground, Stef took Transport for London’s tube disruption maps and spliced them together into a three-minute time-lapse movie that shows delays over a 15-day period. The result? “London Underground is disruption free, a… »
Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2005 at 8:47 AM
Categories: London, Mass Transit
Question: Wall-sized London Tube Map?
Don Sattler writes, “I’m in London on vacation and would love to purchase a large map of the tube system to hang on my office wall. I can’t seem to find one. Do you know of any shops that might… »
Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 at 5:39 PM
Categories: London, Mass Transit, Questions
London Underground on MetaFilter
Tube map fanatics should not miss the ultimate MetaFilter post on the London Underground. Some stuff you may have seen before, even here, but it’s all in one spot, see?… »
Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 at 10:52 AM
Categories: London, Mass Transit
Transport for London Maps and Directions
Transport for London (London’s transit agency) has a journey planner that I would try if I knew anything about the city; alas, I’ve never been. (Many of my readers have, though, so let me know if it’s any good.) Their… »
Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at 10:09 PM
Categories: London
London’s Ethnic Diversity
From a Grauniad special report on London’s ethnic diversity, a couple of maps showing concentrations of ethnic and religious minorities in that city. The maps use only four gradations of shading, which can be misleading: in one, the darkest shade… »
Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 at 9:23 AM
Categories: London
North Londoners’ Map of London
After all that election nonsense, now for a bit of fun. Naturally, as a benighted colonist, I don’t get the joke, but here, via The (always nifty) Cartoonist, is London (and the rest of the known universe) as seen by… »
Posted on Friday, November 12, 2004 at 9:41 PM
Categories: London
New URL for Tube Map Archive
The London Tube Map Archive has a new URL, now that sitehouse.net is no longer operative. I don’t know when it happened: I linked to the old address in April 2003; The Cartoonist linked to the new address on Sunday…. »
Posted on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 at 2:59 PM
Categories: London, Mass Transit
Flipping Between Satellite Images and Maps
MultiMap uses JavaScript to toggle between maps and satellite images of a given locale. One of a part of London has been making the rounds of the blogosphere this week (see Boing Boing and MetaFilter)…. »
Posted on Thursday, October 7, 2004 at 12:49 PM
Categories: London, Maps Online, Satellite & Aerial
Profile of Tube Map’s Creator
Last Thursday’s Guardian — they do seem do have a lot of map-related content, don’t they? — had an article about Henry Beck, the creator of the iconic London Underground map that ditched scale and proportionality in favour of clarity…. »
Posted on Monday, September 20, 2004 at 10:09 AM
Categories: London, Mass Transit
London Noise Map
Last year I blogged about a noise map of Paris. Now the concept has jumped the Channel: there’s a noise map of London available, and it looks like there will be more such maps across England. There are two official-looking… »
Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2004 at 10:39 AM
Categories: London
London Tube Map Satellite Image
For you Tube map freaks: R. Gardiner has taken a geographically accurate map of the London Underground and superimposed it on a satellite image of the city. Very effective. Via Here Be Dragons…. »
Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 at 11:01 AM
Categories: London, Mass Transit, Satellite & Aerial

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