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Layers of London

Posted on Wednesday 26 September 2018 by Oliver O’Brien

Layers of London, which has just launched, aims to be a platform for geolocating and documenting the local history of the capital. It works by allowing historical facts, comments and memories to be attached to pins on a map. The pins are grouped together as projects, or collections. The map itself can be adjusted, from […]

Booth, georeferencing, Historic, history, old, orthorectification, stories, victorian

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.

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