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    Category: Infographics

    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

    TheInformationCapital_cover_500px

    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

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    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

    recce0

    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

    week_in_life_zoom

    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

    london_year_in_maps

    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

    ucl_map1

    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

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