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Air Pollution on the Tube

Posted on Tuesday 5 November 2019 by Oliver O’Brien

An eye-opening version the Tube Map for central London was published by the FT today (& on Twitter). The graphic, created by Steven Bernard of the FT Data team, is based on “PM 2.5” air pollution particulate matter readings, measured by…

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3D Map of Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution

Posted on Wednesday 24 October 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

Air pollution has long been a problem in London, and the current mayor has identified pollution as one of his major goals to highlight and tackle polluion, and improve the capital’s air quality during his time in charge. This map, of the modelled 2020 annual pollution levels of NO2, has been produced by Parallel, using […]

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Tranquil Pavement

Posted on Friday 16 February 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

Tranquil Pavement is an online map recently launched by the Tranquil City project based in London, in association with the Outlandish Cooperative and funded by Organicity. It aims to highlight tranquil places to visit, if the hustle and bustle of city life gets too much, by plotting “crowdsourced “locations – referenced in an Instagram feed […]

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SmellyMaps

Posted on Monday 14 December 2015 by Oliver O’Brien

SmellyMaps reveals the “olfactory footprint of London” – the streets which are dominated by traffic fumes, the animal smells emanating out from London Zoo, and the influence of parks and greenspaces on London’s scent experience. Streets are measured for four smell groupings – emissions (coloured red on the map), nature (green), food (blue) and animals […]

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New Citizen Science for air quality campaign

Posted on Tuesday 24 November 2015 by mukih

Mapping for Change, the social enterprise that I co-founded, has been assisting community groups to run air quality studies for the past 5 years. During this period we have worked in 30 communities across London, carrying out studies with different tools – from collecting leaves, to examining lichens, to using diffusion tubes. We have also followed … Continue reading New Citizen Science for air quality campaign

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Cycle Hire Journeys & The Central London Grid

Posted on Monday 24 February 2014 by Oliver O’Brien

You may remember this map produced by Mapping London co […]

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London Cycle Hire and Pollution

Posted on Tuesday 21 February 2012 by James Cheshire

As a cyclist in London you can do your best to avoid le […]

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London Cycle Hire and Pollution

Posted on Thursday 2 February 2012 by James Cheshire

As a cyclist in London you can do your best to avoid left turning buses and dozy pedestrians. One thing you can’t really avoid though is pollution (although I accept cyclists probably aren’t much worse off than pedestrians and drivers in this respect). To illustrate this I have taken data for 3.2 million journeys from …

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