The Best of 2011
As 2011 draws to a close it is worth reflecting on what, I think, has been a defining year for mapping and spatial analysis. Geographic data have become open, big, and...
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Mapping Academic Tweets
Another day, another Twitter map- this time showing the global distribution of tweets that link to academic journal articles. I am always a bit skeptical of Twitter...
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Mapping London’s Population Change 1801-2030
Buried in the London Datastore are the population estimates for each of the London Boroughs between 2001 – 2030. They predict a declining population for most...
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Mapping London’s Surnames
Inspired by the What’s in a Surname? map we helped make with the National Geographic, I have created 15 interactive typographic maps to show the most popular...
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Boris Bikes/Barclays Cycle Hire Average Journey Times
The visualisation above shows the average relative duration of Boris Bikers’ weekday journeys over a 4 month period at hourly intervals. For each time step the...
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spatial.ly is written and curated by James Cheshire. James is a lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis where he researches, teaches and maps.