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Lost London

Posted on Monday 6 June 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

London has a great collection of grand buildings, famous bridges and other urban objects that delight tourists and residents alike, but there’s quite a few impressive structures that haven’t made it to 2016. Here is a map of a London that you can’t see. The premise is simple – it shows some of London’s distinctive […]

Art, building, buildings, heritage, Historic, lost, old

Brutalist London Map

Posted on Monday 16 November 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

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 […]

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

Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945

Posted on Tuesday 1 September 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

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 – […]

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

Google’s 3D Maps of London

Posted on Friday 18 July 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

Google yesterday released their 3D map for much of inne […]

3D, buildings, fly-through, Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, visualisation

Mapping the Census for London

Posted on Tuesday 8 April 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

Neal Hudson, housing market analyst at Savills, has bee […]

buildings, census, Census 2011, Demographics, Housing, Neal Hudson, residential, visualisation

Generalising OS MasterMap Buildings

Posted on Tuesday 20 December 2011 by Daniel Lewis

The purpose of map generalisation is to represent spatial data in a way that makes it possible to effectively view the data at scales smaller than that for which it was originally intended. In the case of the Ordnance Survey’s MasterMap product you have data at an incredibly fine level of spatial resolution, which is […]

buildings, generalisation, geometry, GIS, mastermap, Representation, scale