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The Mapping London Christmas List 2019

Posted on Thursday 21 November 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

The season for giving and receiving approaches once again. Here’s Mapping London’s guide to the best gifts for that London, or cartographical, enthusiast in your life: London Poverty Maps (Our Review / Buy on Amazon)This hardback book is an…

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Curiocity

Posted on Monday 17 October 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

Curiocity is a weighty tome, written by Henry Eliot and Matt Lloyd-Rose and published recently by Particular Books. The book follows on from a short, alphabetically organised series of pocket maps, some of which that we featured (C) a few years ago (D). This is a book which certainly delivers on its back-cover promise to […]

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London Railway Atlas (4th ed)

Posted on Saturday 25 April 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

The London Railway Atlas is probably the most detailed […]

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Pictorial Map from The A to Z 1938 London Street Atlas

Posted on Thursday 11 July 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

The above map is an extract from a reproduction of the […]

A to Z, A-Z, atlas, Historic, streets

Fast Thinking and Slow Thinking Visualisation

Posted on Thursday 1 March 2012 by James Cheshire

Last week I attended the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference and heard a talk by Robert Groves, Director of the US Census Bureau. Aside the impressiveness of the bureau’s work I was struck by how Groves conceived of visualisations as requiring either fast thinking or slow thinking. Fast thinking data visualisations offer a clear message without the need …

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