Huge map of London

[RubyToogood]

No need to cut up an A-Z book, you can get the map as a whole:

http://www.a-zmaps.co.uk/asp/detail...ng=181700&txteasting=533400&userid=&referrer=

It's the same sort of scale as the book, but you don't get an enlarged bit in the middle obviously, and the street index is in an attached leaflet. You can get ones for the adjacent bits, so if you go to Croydon a lot or whatever you can get one of those and attach it if you want to.

 

[zenie]

I'm so gonna get one of these

 

[lang rabbie]

No need to cut up an A-Z book, you can get the map as a whole:

http://www.a-zmaps.co.uk/asp/detail...ng=181700&txteasting=533400&userid=&referrer=

It's the same sort of scale as the book, but you don't get an enlarged bit in the middle obviously, and the street index is in an attached leaflet. You can get ones for the adjacent bits, so if you go to Croydon a lot or whatever you can get one of those and attach it if you want to.

Or buy all nine sheets of A-Z's Master Map of Greater London - IIRC each one is 40 inches wide by 30 inches high, so you just need a space 10 feet wide and 7 feet 6 inches tall!

 

[zenie]

Or buy all nine sheets of it - IIRC each one is 40 inches wide by 30 inches high, so you just need a space 10 feet wide and 7 feet 6 inches tall!

who needs wallpaper?

 

[hatz]

I wish I'd known this a couple of years ago. I cut up 2 A-Z's and spent bloody ages sticking it all together. It looked so cool on the kitchen wall... I used to stand and look at it... that makes me sound really sad. I love maps too. I thought I was the only one!!!!

 

[Team Bergerac]

Mate of mine got all the London Cycling maps (free from Uncle Ken) and cut them together to make an exact London-shaped map on his bedroom wall. High ceilings.

Free, and much less of a pain in the arse than hacking up an entire A-Z. Also useful for knowing how to cycle from Bromley to Watford, should such a thing ever be desirable or advisable.

 

[liberty]

I wish I'd known this a couple of years ago. I cut up 2 A-Z's and spent bloody ages sticking it all together. It looked so cool on the kitchen wall... I used to stand and look at it... that makes me sound really sad. I love maps too. I thought I was the only one!!!!

Nope they are great..

www.google.co.uk/maps is fantastic give it a go

 

[Bob]

There's a map shop on Caxton street, just round the corner from St James tube, that sells a big flat map of the whole of London - slightly smaller than A-Z sizes but colour - in total about four and a half feet square.

 

[zenie]

I wish I'd known this a couple of years ago. I cut up 2 A-Z's and spent bloody ages sticking it all together. It looked so cool on the kitchen wall... I used to stand and look at it... that makes me sound really sad. I love maps too. I thought I was the only one!!!!

I reckon that woul look much more interesting on the wall though than a flat map.

I like to draw stuff and write notes in my A-Z's

Team Bergerac how big did the cyling map measure, I have a couple here.

 

[Team Bergerac]

Team Bergerac how big did the cyling map measure, I have a couple here.

Pretty big, but fitted on a (quite high) wall no probs.

It depends how far out you want to go. You can sort of work it out from one, because on each map there's a little to-scale drawing of how it fits with the rest of London. Bear in mind that there's a lot of overlap between maps.

TB

 

[lang rabbie]

There's a map shop on Caxton street, just round the corner from St James tube, that sells a big flat map of the whole of London - slightly smaller than A-Z sizes but colour - in total about four and a half feet square.

[rustles anorak at Bob] I've just realised that I bought the (now discontinued???) four sheet version of tha Nicholson Greater London plan (each sheet about 1.5 metres x 1 metre!) from that Caxton Street shop when they were having a clearance sale five years ago. They've been sitting rolled up under the spare bed ever since.

Still, could come in useful when planning my mayoral campaign, should anyone nominate me as "a credible, real world candidate".

 

[hatz]

Yay for maps and for anoraks!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Does anyone have any idea where I can get a huge map of London with all the street names on the same scale as the A-Z?

Cheers

Um, what about a huge map shop?




i'll get my coat

 

[liberty]

Um, what about a huge map shop?




i'll get my coat

For that comment you can stand in the corner

I did get a huge map in the end £5.50

Hope your well

 

[dangerboyjim]

I am definately doing the A-Z thing in our hallway.

That is fried gold!


BTW, I don't know if it's still there but city hall had a humungous aerial photograph on the floor of the lower ground level. I spent hours looking at it, finding stadiums, airports, houses I've lived in. Absolutely amazing if you love maps like I do.

Or maybe you just like feeling like a giant.

 

[tim]

Or buy all nine sheets of A-Z's Master Map of Greater London - IIRC each one is 40 inches wide by 30 inches high, so you just need a space 10 feet wide and 7 feet 6 inches tall!

I've seen this done and contemlated it myself it looks good, and you can waste hours looking at it.

 

[mod]

The is a big shop on that road between Leicester Square and Covent Garden tube stations on the right. Cant remember the name but i got one from there a few years back.

 

[tim]

The is a big shop on that road between Leicester Square and Covent Garden tube stations on the right. Cant remember the name but i got one from there a few years back.

Stanfords, there's a link to their website on the previous page. This is a link to the website of the actual publisher of the maps.