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Walking with the Snowman

Posted on Wednesday 29 November 2023 by Oliver O’Brien

We’ve long liked temporary “parade” sculpture trails in London – they make exploring a neighbourhood even more interesting, if around the corner is one of

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13 Bridges Challenge

Posted on Tuesday 20 June 2023 by Oliver O’Brien

The 13 Bridges Challenge, organised by SSAFA (the Armed Forces charity) is taking place on Saturday 24 June (this Saturday) and participants will be walking

bridge, bridges, challenge, Charity, Events, river, SSAFA, thames

Festive Fleet Street Quarter

Posted on Monday 14 November 2022 by Oliver O’Brien

Fleet Street Quarter, a new Business Improvement District set up earlier this year for the western part of the City of London (around Fleet Street,

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Cool Spaces

Posted on Monday 18 July 2022 by Oliver O’Brien

It’s very hot in London today, and tomorrow. It’s best not to be out and about at all, but if you need to be in London, there are some places which may be cooler than others – public venues with air conditioning, some tubes/trains (if…

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Let’s Do London

Posted on Friday 13 August 2021 by Oliver O’Brien

After nearly a year and a half when much of London has been staying away from its central business district, there’s a big push to get people back into the middle of town. The Mayor of London and Visit London have this week launched Let’s D…

central, Events, Family, Kids, Tourist, tube, VisitLondon

Tusk London Trail

Posted on Thursday 12 August 2021 by Oliver O’Brien

Time to find some painted lions in central London! The Tusk London Trail is a series of life-size fibreglass lions, painted by a variety of artists and comedians including Lee Mack (“Three Shirts on the Lion”) and Noel Fielding, as well as …

Events, fibreglass, lion, lions, parade, Piccadilly, trail

Achieving Situational Awareness with Geolocated Social Media

Posted on Tuesday 25 May 2021 by Unknown

Tuning back to our work on geosocial analysis we (Xiaoyi Yuan, Ron Mahabir, Arie Croitoru and myself) recently had a paper published in GeoJournal entitled “Achieving Situational Awareness of Drug Cartels with Geolocated Social Media.” The o…

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Achieving Situational Awareness with Geolocated Social Media

Posted on Tuesday 25 May 2021 by Unknown

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Christmas Markets

Posted on Wednesday 18 December 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

The days may be short, but London comes alive in the month leading up to Christmas, with a number of Christmas Markets popping up at various scenic, tourist friendly locations, to provide a bit of mulled wine, bratwurst and handmade Christmas gifts. Li…

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East End Independents – 2019 Edition

Posted on Monday 16 December 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

Following the original 2017 edition and a 2018 update, The East End Trades Guild have launched a new version of their specially created map of independent retail businesses in the East End of London, many of whom sell unique, locally made gifts ideal f…

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Fallen Fruit

Posted on Friday 4 October 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

The Fallen Fruit project, by David Allen Burns and Austin Young in the US, allows communities to map publically owned/accessible trees in their neighbourhood which are likely groaning with fruit to eat, at this kind of year. There is an online Google-p…

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London Car Free Day Map

Posted on Friday 20 September 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

London is taking part in World Car Free Day, and the Mayor of London’s office has produced a special map showing the extent of road closures (to motor vehicles) or reimagined roads (to everyone else). The area covers almost the whole of the City …

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Call for Papers: Humans, Societies and Artificial Agents – SpringSim

Posted on Monday 26 August 2019 by Unknown

At the upcoming 2020 Spring Simulation (SpringSim) Conference being held at George Mason University, Philippe Giabbanelli and myslef are organizing a tract entitled Humans, Societies and Artificial Agents. Aims and Scope:In the Humans, Societies…

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Call for Papers: Humans, Societies and Artificial Agents – SpringSim

Posted on Monday 26 August 2019 by Unknown

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Freecycle Route Map

Posted on Monday 15 July 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

The Prudential RideLondon weekend takes place this year on August 3-4. One of the events is Freecycle, when some of central London’s biggest roads are closed to motor traffic, and anyone with a bike can enjoy seven miles of wide roads with just t…

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Call for Papers: GeoSim 2019

Posted on Friday 24 May 2019 by Andrew Crooks

The 2nd International Workshop on Geospatial Simulation (GeoSim) focuses on all aspects of simulation as a general paradigm to model and predict spatial systems and generate spatial data. New simulation methodologies and frameworks, not necessarily …

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Call for Papers: GeoSim 2019

Posted on Friday 24 May 2019 by Unknown

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Winter Lights 2019

Posted on Thursday 24 January 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

Canary Wharf’s annual public light show is back – it closes this Saturday, so you have just three more evenings to get down to the Isle of Dogs after dark and see 21 illuminated artworks. There’s a special map produced each year to show where on the campus the exhibits are. We reviewed last year’s […]

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Winter Wonderland

Posted on Friday 7 December 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

It’s been a wet and drab December so far – so why not escape the gloom and get into the spirit of the season with the biggest Christmas market/funfair in London? Winter Wonderland, which occupies a huge space at the eastern end of Hyde Park, stretching almost from Marble Arch to Hyde Park Corner. The […]

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East End Independents – 2018 Edition

Posted on Saturday 1 December 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

This lovely map, hand-created by artist-cartographer Adam Dant, which was commissioned by the East End Trades Guild, is launched today at their Christmas takeover of Old Spitalfields Market – you’ll be able to pick up a free copy there. The map shows the locations of some of the more interesting traders and small businesses in […]

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Winter Lights

Posted on Monday 22 January 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

If Lumiere London, which finished yesterday, has whet your appetite for seeing artistic displays of light after dark, then there is another festival of lights which runs until Saturday. It’s at Canary Wharf and called Winter Lights. Think Lumiere London, in a smaller area and without the huge crowds. And, like the King’s Cross, it’s […]

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Lumiere at King’s Cross

Posted on Friday 19 January 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

King’s Cross is one of the six Lumiere London areas, where light-based artworks are on display every evening until Sunday. We looked at the general maps of the event yesterday, but we discovered also that King’s Cross has its own map, showing where the exhibits are. You don’t have to follow the marked route, although […]

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Lumiere London

Posted on Thursday 18 January 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

The Lumiere London, a free show of more than 50 light-based artworks, scattered throughout central London, starts today and the lights are switched on for the next four evenings, until Sunday 21st. It’s the second running of the event, after the inaugural in January 2016 which led to huge crowds of onlookers on the streets […]

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Christmas Map 2017

Posted on Friday 1 December 2017 by Oliver O’Brien

It’s December! So Christmas is not far away, and so here’s a nice map which takes that always popular London map – the tube map – focuses on the inner city section, coverts the lines to coloured tissue paper, and hangs baubles on many of the stations, detailing a nearby Christmas-related attraction, be it a […]

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Christmas List 2016

Posted on Monday 12 December 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

Welcome to the Mapping London Christmas List 2016! Not long now until Christmas Day – if you are having a last minute present crisis, our list includes direct links, so you can browse, order, sit back and relax in the knowledge that the present selections for your London map geek friends (or yourself!) are all […]

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Christmas Map

Posted on Tuesday 6 December 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

Here’s a rather nice map combining the famously colourful and diagrammatic tube map with Christmas tree lights, to create an infographic, “The London Christmas Map”, showing the Christmassy events happening in London. You can see a full version of the map, including a key and listings for each event and how far it is from […]

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London: A World of Eating

Posted on Friday 4 November 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

London: A World of Eating is a little map from Herb Lester – prolific producers of quirky pocket London maps with bespoke cartography (we recently featured their Punk London map). The map, which showcases some of London’s many interesting eateries featuring food from other countries, is sold out on their own website, but copies are […]

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Food Maps

Posted on Thursday 7 July 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

Here’s some arty maps of localities in London which have a distinctly culinary theme. “Edible Clapham” drawn by Lis Watkins and commissioned by Incredible Edible Lambeth – more a series of colourful, detailed drawings linked together by a walking route, it nonetheless is the map needed for a foodie tour of this trendy neighborhood: “Tootopia”, […]

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Punk London

Posted on Tuesday 8 March 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

The latest pocket guide and fold-out map from boutique urban cartographers Herb Lester is “Punk London“, celebrating 40 years since the punk movement of the 1970s, by mapping key locations in central London where it happened. Mike Haddad is the carrtographer/designer. As with all Herb Lester maps it’s a proper, custom made and litho-printed map, […]

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Call for abstracts – PopFest 2016: The 24th Annual Population Postgraduate Conference

Posted on Thursday 3 March 2016 by

Tweet 4th – 6th July 2016 University of Manchester PopFest is an annual Population Studies conference for postgraduate students organised by fellow postgraduates. It provides an excellent opportunity to bring together researchers from various Social Science disciplines such as Demography, Human Geography, Urban Planning, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Social Statistics, Politics and other related […]

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Policy Forum: Europe’s migration crisis? 22 March 2016, RGS-IBG

Posted on Thursday 3 March 2016 by

TweetEurope’s migration crisis? 21st Century Challenges: Policy Forum Tuesday 22 March 2016: 5.30pm – 7.30pm (with the opportunity to stay for dinner until 9.30pm) Join the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) for a lively panel discussion (5.30pm – 7.30pm), with the opportunity to stay for dinner (7.30pm – 9.30pm) to explore the challenges and opportunities […]

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Crossrail Station Footprints

Posted on Thursday 28 January 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

We’ve featured Crossrail’s official construction map before, when it was showing the progress of the various TBMs (tunnel boring machines) drilling through London, but with the tunnels themselves now burrowed, it’s received a welcome update – if you zoom right in, you can now see the shape and extent of the underground stations. And they […]

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Lumiere London

Posted on Friday 15 January 2016 by Oliver O’Brien

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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Call for Papers – AAG 2016 – Geographies of Internal Migration: Cross-National Trends and Patterns

Posted on Tuesday 22 September 2015 by

Tweet Geographies of Internal Migration: Cross-National Trends and Patterns Convenors: Professor Thomas Cooke (University of Connecticut), Dr Ian Shuttleworth (QUB), Professor Darren Smith (Loughborough University) and Dr Nik Lomax (University of Leeds) Sponsored by the Population Speciality Group of the AAG and the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS/IBG […]

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Pacman on Google Maps!

Posted on Tuesday 31 March 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

So, we thought yesterday’s post on Google Maps fo […]

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Centre for Spatial Demographics Research, University of Liverpool: Centre Symposium and Launch Event

Posted on Thursday 5 March 2015 by

TweetThursday 11th and Friday 12th June 2015, University of Liverpool Research on population studies is at a major turning point. Changes not just in population dynamics (for example, in fertility and family formation and migration, and in the social, economic, demographic and ethnic characteristics of neighbourhoods), but also in the ways in which populations are […]

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Deadline for Abstracts: International Conference on Population Geographies 2015

Posted on Sunday 8 February 2015 by

TweetThe deadline for receipt of abstracts for the 8th International Conference on Population Geographies is fast approaching. We look forward to receiving your proposal by Monday 16th February 2015 and welcoming you to the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, from 30 June to 3 July 2015. We invite papers from all fields of population geography […]

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Call for Papers: Annual Conference of the 2015 RGS-IBG

Posted on Tuesday 13 January 2015 by

Tweet The Population Geography Research Group are delighted to issue our call for papers for the annual conference of the 2015 RGS-IBG, for sessions sponsored by the research group. The conference will take place on Wednesday 2nd to Friday 4th September 2015, at the University of Exeter. If you are interested in presenting a […]

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Call for papers – International Conference on Population Geographies 2015

Posted on Wednesday 17 December 2014 by

Tweet The Spatial Dimensions of Population – Call for papers The call for papers for the 8th International Conference on Population Geographies is now open. The Conference will be held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia from 30th June to 3rd July 2015. Abstracts for papers and posters should be around 250 […]

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Eighth International Conference on Population Geographies Brisbane, Australia, 30 June 2015 to 3 July 2015

Posted on Friday 31 October 2014 by

TweetDear All, We are delighted to announce that the 8th International Conference on Population Geographies will be held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, from 30 June to 3 July 2015. Essential details of the conference are available on the University of Queensland website at: http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/icpg2015. As you will see, we expect to launch […]

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