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The Changing London Olympic Park – 2006 to 2010

Posted on Sunday 13 March 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

Inspired by Andrew Kesper’s ABC before/after photos of the Japan tsunami destruction, I have created a “scrubber” photo of the London Olympic construction site in the east of the capital, using the imagery available in Google Earth. The aerial photography is copyright Google and Bluesky. You can the see the original imagery in Google Earth by using the program’s timeline slider, there are some other years also available there, even one from December 1945.

Move your mouse over the picture, to swipe between the 2006 and 2010 imagery. Continue reading →

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The London Underground Network in Detail

Posted on Friday 11 March 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

The world is not short of London underground network maps, there is something very appealing about the mix of lines, curves, dashes and circles, all shown across a distinctive set…

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Where are the Bikes? – in 3D

Posted on Monday 7 March 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

Adrian Short, provider of one of the main 3rd-party APIs for the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London – the Boris Bikes API – has taken his data and produced…

3D, barclays cycle hire, bikes, boris bikes, cycling, Earth, Google, Google Earth, temporal, Transport

The Travelling Football Clubs of London

Posted on Friday 4 March 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

Two interesting maps of football clubs and London: First, Dean of The Londonist has mapped out the various locations of London’s football clubs over time. Many of them have moved…

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Barclays Cycle Superhighway Line Maps

Posted on Monday 28 February 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

A series of blue cycle lanes, branded signs, junction reprofiles and street furniture changes are gradually being built, creating a “hub and spoke” type network of fast cycle routes from…

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Should the UK move to Double Summer Time?

Posted on Friday 25 February 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

Every autumn, as predictably as the clocks going back from British Summer Time (BST, i.e. GMT+1) to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), there are newspaper articles with people suggesting that we scrap the change and just stay with BST all year … Continue reading →

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New Aerial Photos of Central London in Google Maps

Posted on Thursday 24 February 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

Google Maps has today updated its aerial imagery for central London. The new imagery appears to be from sometime late last summer, and reveals the many new buildings and features that have appeared in the capital recently. Above is the … Continue reading →

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The Geography of Cheap Train Tickets

Posted on Wednesday 23 February 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

Dmitry Adamskiy has built a map of the prices of “advance-purchase” train tickets to anywhere in Great Britain, from several key locations, e.g. London, Birmingham, Liverpool. The dots on the map are colour coded from green to red depending on … Continue reading →

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Review: OpenStreetMap – Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World

Posted on Monday 21 February 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

OpenStreetMap, the free wiki world map, is starting to come of age. The project is now six years old, and is gradually becoming noticed in wider circles, with AOL and Mapquest producing their own versions of the map, support from … Continue reading →

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Will you be buying tickets for the London Olympics?

Posted on Thursday 17 February 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

So are you coming to the greatest show on earth in London next summer? Or are you making a point of staying away? Perhaps even going to a rival sporting event? Answer my one-question survey below, and enter the first … Continue reading →

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Orbit Rising – An Extrusion from the Ground

Posted on Saturday 12 February 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

The ArchelorMittal Orbit, a giant sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor and sited right next to the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, is starting to appear from the ground, looking, at the moment, like a giant-sized playground “mesh”. I like the momentary … Continue reading →

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LinkedIn Network Maps

Posted on Sunday 6 February 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

I’ve just come across the network map generator from LinkedIn Labs, the “cool fun stuff” page where LinkedIn employees put their “20%-time” projects. I don’t use LinkedIn hugely, but have built up enough contacts on the “professional” social network now, … Continue reading →

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