Author Archive for James Cheshire

London Summer 2012 Map

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Next time you are passing through a station keep an eye out for a “London Summer 2012″ map. It is a similar style to the “Why not Walk it Maps?”…

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Travel to Work

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Duncan Smith from UCL CASA has produced some great maps of commuter flows. Each line represents the routes people follow to work (as a straight line from origin to destination) and whilst…

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TfL Why Not Walk It? Maps

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TfL have produced a nice range of maps to promote walking instead of public transport (especially during the Olympics).  The maps use different cartography to the other walking maps TfL…

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Mapping City Flows as Blood

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Blood is everywhere when it comes to describing cities. We have arterial roads, pulsing transport flows, and cities with different metabolisms. Thanks to great new datasets and visualisation software the analogy of cities with pulsing flows is being increasingly utilised for explanatory mapping. For example the work of UCL CASA’s Jon Reades above depicts the London Underground network …

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Pigeon Sim- A fresh way to interact with urban data?

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  Thanks to an Xbox Kinect, Google Earth and some programming wizardry from UCL CASA researcher George MacKerron it is now possible to fly over London. The video below shows “Pigeon Sim” which has been developed to offer a fresh way of interacting with London’s urban data. Using Peter-Pan like arm gestures (above) users can …

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