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Harry Beck Inspired Maps
This past week I have come across a few original interpretations of Harry Beck’s classic London Underground Map. The Threadless clothing website has thrown up a couple. The first is of my favorites and is a Middle Earth Metro map. The second from threadless is a map of the Metropolitan Cardiac Authority Transport Routes: Continuing ...
A day in the life of the London Cycle Hire scheme.
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For the past few days I have been taking screen shots of Oliver O’Brien’s hugely popular London Cycle Hire Status Map. How the map works is explained on Ollie’s blog. I have picked 24 hours (from midnight Tuesday 10th to midnight Wednesday 11th) to demonstrate the flows of people in and out of London. Nothing ...
1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak
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 one of the first (and arguably best) examples of using spatial analysis in epidemiological studies, Snow’s map holds a special place in the hearts of those using spatial analysis to ...
Historic London
Much of the research we do in UCL Geography and CASA relates to London. One of the most interesting aspects of the city is its growth and development (you can see changes in London’s population density here). I was therefore excited to stumble on a scanned copy of “Maps of Old London” by Geraldine Milton ...
The Colour of Votes in London
Utilizing the same technique as the national election map, I have mapped the Local Election results for the Greater London Area at Ward level for 2006 and 2010. As before I have used RGB space to choose the final colours of each Ward based on the proportion of people voting Labour (coloured red), Other (incl. ...
Britain from Above
I have just discovered the amazing visualisations produced for the BBC’s Britain from Above series. I have embedded some of my favourites- much of the data were collated and provided by CASA- see Digital Urban for details . The taxis in London (above) create a fantastic impression of the diurnal rhythms within the city. The ...
Mapping Free Data: London’s Working Week
Much of the data downloadable from London’s Data Store have a spatial dimension. Mapping this, even in the simplistic way above, should be encouraged to raise awareness of some of the stories it can (and can’t) tell about life in London. One of the most important uses I foresee for this data is in an ...
Making Maps with R
***This tutorial has been updated, please click here*** I frequently use R (a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics) for data analysis. As almost all my data are spatial it is often good to produce a map of the results without having to export the data into another GIS package. I am often ...
London Population Density 1801- 2001
Using data from the excellent new London Data Store website I have produced a maps showing London’s population density for each decade between 1801 and 2001. An especially interesting pattern from the maps is that of increased population densities in central London until around 1951 and then a gradual decline until 2001. Outer London boroughs ...
UCL Panoramic Pictures
To add to Oliver O’Brien’s “A Year at UCL” slideshow I have uploaded a couple of panoramic photos from visually impressive moments featuring UCL’s Portico Building. As I take more pictures I will add them to this album.
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