Author: Oliver O’Brien

Lumiere London

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Lumiere London is a festival of light and art taking place every evening until this Sunday. From 6:30-10pm, nearly 30 temporary artworks in central London will come alive with lights. From a holographic elephant to neon sausage-dogs and a strange organic-looking structure suspended over London’s principal crossroads (Oxford Circus), it’s a great excuse to brave […]

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Art, artwork, Events, lights, lumiere, show

Dwelling Ages

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The Valuation Office Agency publish some interesting open data sets from time-to-time. One that caught my eye recently was a breakdown of counts of residential buildings in each small area (LSOA, around 700 houses) by the decade that they were built in. The data is not perfect for mapping – pre-1900 is grouped together into […]

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age, Ages, building, data, Demographics, dwelling, house, Housing, residential, voa

SmellyMaps

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SmellyMaps reveals the “olfactory footprint of London” – the streets which are dominated by traffic fumes, the animal smells emanating out from London Zoo, and the influence of parks and greenspaces on London’s scent experience. Streets are measured for four smell groupings – emissions (coloured red on the map), nature (green), food (blue) and animals […]

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data, fumes, pollution, scent, sense, smell, smelly, visualisation

What Lies Beneath

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To celebrate one year since the release of London: The Information Capital by Mapping London co-editor James Cheshire and graphic designer Oliver Uberti, and the book recently winning the BCS Award, the authors have released a number of new excepts from the book. Here we feature “What Lies Beneath”, a map of the tunnelled sections […]

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archaeology, artefact, Crossrail, excavation, Historic, roman, ruin, skeleton, tube, tunnel, tunnelling

10×10 London: Land Water Land

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Every year, for the last few years, Mapping London editors Oliver and James have been invited to create and submit an artwork for 10×10 London, a charity art auction organised by Article 25, the architectural development charity (originally called Architects for Aid). Being neither artists or architects, it is very flattering that we have been […]

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10x10, Art, article 25, auction, canvas, Charity, DEM, DTM, EA, environment agency, Lambeth, lidar, river, thames

Josie Shenoy’s “River Thames”

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Mapping London stumbled upon this lovely cartographic art-piece of London, created by illustrator Josie Shenoy, at her stall at the South Bank Christmas Market (almost underneath the southern end of the Hungerford Bridge that goes across to Charing Cross, near Foyles’s South Bank outpost). It’s called River Thames and is available as a print and […]

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Art, birds, flowers, giraffe, josie, River Thames, shenoy, whimsical

Brutalist London Map

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For fans all all things concrete comes this map of London’s most famous Brutalist buildings. Created by Blue Crow Media (see also their craft beer and cycling maps, it is the first in a new series of map-based guides to London architecture, focusing on the modern 1950s/60s “raw” concrete-heavy designs by Le Corbusier and others […]

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architecture, Barbican, blue crow media, brutalist, buildings, Historic, modern, Tourist

Baker Street & Waterloo Railway

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Today, the London Transport Museum unveils a new permanent gallery in its space in Covent Garden, called “London by Design“. The gallery includes a number of maps which have not been exhibited before, including this lovely map of the “Baker Street & Waterloo Railway (of which the Bakerloo Line‘s name is a portmanteau) which first […]

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1906, Baker Street, bakerloo, Historic, Johnson, railway, tube, Waterloo

A Line Map of Camden

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This “line” map of Camden’s cultural locations – museums, galleries and music venues – has been produced by Camden Council and appears alongside a “Legible London” map of the borough and surrounding areas. I like the concept of simplifying a normal 2D right down to a straight line (although the actual route itself does involve […]

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Camden, journey, line, line map, linear, straight, Tourist

Bauerkeller’s New Embossed Plan of London 1842

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Is this London’s first 3D map? The vivid and historic map of London in 1842, coloured by district, has one unusual feature – it’s embossed. The photos here (taken of the copy in The Map House dealership in Knightsbridge) are from the framed copy that hangs in The Map House and the directional lighting from […]

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1842, 3D, Bauerkeller, colourful, embossed, Historic, Map House, The Map House

Currency and Cartography

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Currency and Cartography is an solo exhibition by artist Justine Smith, available to view in the gallery space at The Map House in Knightsbridge, a specialist map dealer (and treasure trove crammed with thousands of other maps, globes, illustrations and other prints – be warned you will get lost browsing in this small but perfectly […]

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Art, gilded, gold, gold leaf, Historic, Justine Smith, Map House, old, old and new, painted, Smith, The Map House

Fuller’s London Town

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Artist Gareth J Wood, aka Fuller, unveiled this striking black-and-weight map-based artwork over London, yesterday. The work was started way back in 2005, and after a four-year pause, Fuller came back and completed the piece, which is well over a metre wide. The work, which can be seen alongside similar works for Bristol and Purbeck, […]

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Art, black, black and white, black ink, Fuller, ink, London Town, pen, Wood

London Connections: A Geographic Tube Map

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View the full map as a lovely vector PDF The Transport for London (TfL) tube map, with its straight lines, 45-degree rounded corners and simple, clear cartography, is a design classic. The map dispenses with other features such as parks, roads and urban extents – because you don’t need those if you are getting from […]

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geographical, network, rail, TFL, train, transport for london, tube

Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945

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Several years ago, we featured some striking maps from a small exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archive. Each map was a detailed plan of a small part of London, the basemap being from 1916, with individual houses clearly shown. Many houses were just shown in white, but a number were coloured in various colours – […]

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blitz, bomb, buildings, colour, damage, Historic, War, world war, WWII
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