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Illustrations of Chartography

Posted on Monday 23 January 2017 by James Cheshire

I discovered this on ebay last week and had to buy it. Entitled “Illustrations in Chartography” it shows a series of different cartographic (or chartographic?) techniques used in the “School Atlas of Physical Geography” by Alex K Johnston. You can see the full book here. It’s too good not to share.

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Cartography, Featured Maps, Infographics, Slideshow, victorian, visualisation

London: The Information Capital

Posted on Tuesday 14 October 2014 by James Cheshire

London has been home to many great cartographers and ha […]

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Book, Events, Infographics, information capital, james cheshire, london, oliver uberti, visualisation

London: The Information Capital

Posted on Tuesday 30 September 2014 by James Cheshire

I am pleased announce that London: The Information Capi […]

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Book, Featured Maps, Infographics, london, london the information capital, Maps, Slideshow, visualisation

Vignelli’s Map of the New York Subway

Posted on Tuesday 26 August 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

Mapping London is just back from a holiday in New York […]

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design, diagram, Infographics, metro, subway, transit, tube, vignelli

Simplifying London’s Network – “Mappi Lundi”, A Hand Drawn Map

Posted on Wednesday 24 July 2013 by Oliver O’Brien

Mappa Lundi is a hand-drawn map of central London which […]

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colour, grid, hand drawn, hand drawn map, Infographics, network, paper, squares, streets

The Tube Map: A tool for promoting social equality?

Posted on Friday 12 October 2012 by James Cheshire

Most government statistics are mapped according to offi […]

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data, Demographics, deprivation, equality, Infographics, Poverty, tube map, tube map life expectancy

Olympic Venues as an Infographic Map

Posted on Wednesday 25 July 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

Thanks to the Chairman of CASA, Prof Michael Batty, for […]

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Infographics

Recce

Posted on Tuesday 17 July 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

Recce is an iPhone app which locates you on a map and s […]

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Infographics, visualisation

A Week in the Life of the Underground (& Overground & DLR)

Posted on Friday 4 May 2012 by James Cheshire

Perhaps inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasu […]

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CASA, dlr, Infographics, overground, TFL, tube, Week in the life

Tweets vs Flickr Photos – Eric Fischer’s City Maps

Posted on Wednesday 29 February 2012 by Oliver O’Brien

Eric Fischer produced this interesting data map of Lond […]

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Infographics, visualisation

London: A Year in Maps

Posted on Monday 12 December 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

Mapping London editors James and Ollie look back at som […]

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2011, data, Demographics, Events, Infographics, london, london year in maps, Maps, tube, visualisation

UCL Hand Drawn Map of London

Posted on Monday 5 December 2011 by James Cheshire

Step aside Stephen Walter, over 270 UCL students (and s […]

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crowd source, hand drawn map, Infographics, london, UCL, visualisation

Telecoms Clutter Map

Posted on Sunday 12 June 2011 by Oliver O’Brien

This map of mobile phone signal strength, produced by t […]

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Infographics

Typographic London

Posted on Friday 18 March 2011 by James Cheshire

Some of the most popular posts on spatialanalysis are about typographic maps. I thought it would be cool to put together some of my favourite’s for London. Click on each…

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Infographics, london, typographic, typographic map, visualisation

John Snow’s Cholera Map

Posted on Wednesday 9 March 2011 by James Cheshire

Embedded below is a high resolution version of John Snow’s 1854 map of the Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) cholera outbreak. Widely cited as the one of the first (and…

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1854, Broad Street, Cholera, Demographics, epidemiology, Infographics, John Snow