Author: Oliver O’Brien
The Olympic Park – New Names, New Map
LOCOG (The London Organising Committee for the Olympic […]
Continue reading »Grand Map of London: A New Map in an Old Style
After featuring many very modern maps on Mapping London […]
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No Zone 1
Transport for London would really rather you didn’ […]
Continue reading »A New Map of London Peculiars
We were delighted to receive a copy of this rather bril […]
Continue reading »Whitehall – a Soviet Military View
As a followup to yesterday’s article on the Sovie […]
Continue reading »Soviet Military Maps of London
Yes the U.S.S.R. had its own maps of London, and other […]
Continue reading »Classic Ordnance-Survey 1:25000 Map of London
The OpenStreetMap Out-of-Copyright (OOC) project aims t […]
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The Twisted London Underground Map
I’m a sucker for alternative maps of the London U […]
Continue reading »8-Bit London
It’s a bit silly, and not exactly very helpful as […]
Continue reading »Tube Maps at Funny Angles
The “Beck” London Underground map is probab […]
Continue reading »Sense and the City at the Transport Museum
A new exhibition – Sense and the City – ope […]
Continue reading »Review: OpenLayers – The Book
OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner’s Guide – Erik Hazard, Packt Publishing The OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner’s Guide (buy: Amazon) is a guidebook for a technology that is relatively unknown in the broader technology world – OpenLayers being a JavaScript-based online mapping framework, the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »CASA on TV
Pleased that a feature on spatial data visualisation at UCL CASA has appeared as a video on the BBC News website today. It includes some work I did with Martin Austwick on animating the bike share in London – I … Continue reading →
Continue reading »TubeViz – Tube Station Passenger Footfall
From Daniela Krug and Lars Malmqvist comes TubeViz R […]
Continue reading »Brussels – Villo and the Open Data Challenge
I was pleased to be invited to Brussels last week to pick up a prize for my Bike Share Map. It won the visualisation stream of the Open Data Challenge, which was organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The presentation … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Telecoms Clutter Map
This map of mobile phone signal strength, produced by t […]
Continue reading »An Uphill Struggle for Open Transport Data in Europe
Today, Europe’s latest bike share scheme, Antwerp’s A-Velo launches. With roughly 80 stations and 1000 bikes, it’s quite an impressive scheme. It follows Ljubljana’s own launch last month. Sadly it won’t appearing on my Bike Share Map anytime soon. It … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Wherecamp and Bikes in Berlin
I was in Berlin last weekend for Wherecamp EU – the European neogeo unconference, which was previously in London. The unconference took place in the pleasant campus of a language school in the north-east of the city. As well as … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Wherecamp and Bikes in Berlin
I was in Berlin last weekend for Wherecamp EU – the European neogeo unconference, which was previously in London. The unconference took place in the pleasant campus of a language school in the north-east of the city. As well as … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweets in London
From the Mapping London blog: Many Twitter messages, or “tweets”, are sent with latitude/longitude information, allowing an insight into the places where the most amount of tweeting happens. For a magazine article, I produced the above map of London, with … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Tweets in London
Many Twitter messages, or “tweets”, are sen […]
Continue reading »A Historical Comparison of OpenStreetMap’s Completeness in Britain
Dr Muki Haklay,UCL CEGE, has been carrying out some quantitative research into OpenStreetMap’s coverage in the UK, comparing road lengths in each square kilometre, with those in a definitive national dataset, Ordnance Survey Meridian 2. He’s updated his findings every … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Notes on a Migration with Images from Blogger to WordPress
I’ve recently reported a very large blog from Blogger to WordPress. The blog has been around for many years, with around a thousand posts – most of which contain at least one image embedded in. The WordPress theme to be … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Washington DC Cycle Commuters Suddenly Appear
One of the striking aspects of the US bike share schemes thus far is that they have generally been dominated by weekend use. There has been some weekday use but not a large commuter morning/evening surge, like has been seen … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The iPhone Locations DB – Fun, but not Accurate
As a followup to my previous post about the (re-)discovery of the iPhone locations cache, the graphic above shows the apparent locations (of known mobile-phone masts and wifi) that were captured on my iPhone, over the last couple of weeks … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Review: Map of a Nation – A Biography of the Ordnance Survey
Map of a Nation, by Rachel Hewitt, comes in a large, chunky hard-back volume with a beautiful, gold-laced front depicting one of the Ordnance Survey’s earliest First Series maps, dated 1810. The book documents, in often immense detail, the early … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Dock Monitor – Keeping an Eye on Boris Bike Docks
Transport for London have gradually been adding docking stations to the Barclays Cycle Hire network in central London – and occasionally they remove, rename or relocate the existing ones. TfL do now have a webpage which is manually updated with … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Easter Sunday – Big Bike Share Day
It’s Easter Sunday. In England at least, the shops are closed, public transport is restricted, and it’s a warm and sunny day. What better to do than get out on the bike. And if you don’t have a bike, the … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Your Life on a Map – Thanks to the iPhone
A recent discovery, revealed at the Where 2.0 conference, of a hidden file on iOS4 iPhones and iPads (and on computers that they are synchronised to) is proving to be rather interesting find. The file contains a couple of tables … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Cartography Update for the Bike Share Visualisation
I’ve refreshed the cartography for my bike share visualisation – the grey background, with dark grey rivers, was looking a bit, well, grey. The rivers are now a nice shade of blue, with the land a bit browner. I’ve also … Continue reading →
Continue reading »American Update
Minneapolis’s Nice Ride bike share ( shiny, updated official website for 2011) has woken up for the 2011 season. Denver’s B-Cycle reopened a few weeks ago. Washington DC & Arlington’s Capital Bikeshare meanwhile continues to get more and more popular, … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Disposable Boris Bikes
A nice April Fools from Firebox – a disposable cardboard bike. The design bears more than a passing resemblance to the Bixi-designed bikes used for […]
Continue reading »Animals on the Underground
It’s part of human nature to see patterns where none exist. If you stare long enough at the London Underground, strange creatures might start to appear. These are the Animals…
Continue reading »Hello Miami Beach!
Miami Beach now has its own bike share. DecoBike went live last week. Currently there are just over 300 bikes available. At one point yesterday, over a quarter of them were in use – an impressive uptake just one week … Continue reading →
Continue reading »Before/After Aerial Photos of London
Using the visualisation technique used by ABC Australia and the New York Times to show before/after photographs of the impact of the Japan Tsunami, below are before/after photographs of four…
Continue reading »Hackney: “Complete” on OpenStreetMap
ITO‘s OSM Analysis table is updated daily, showing the number of roads in each district/borough in the UK that are in the OS Locator* dataset that are missing in OpenStreetMap. There is an accompanying choropleth map (you need to login … Continue reading →
Continue reading »The OpenStreetMap of London
The OpenStreetMap project started in London in 2004 and has since grown to be a huge map of the whole world. It can be thought of as the Wikipedia of…
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