London maps: useful, unusual, alternative

[Numbers]

Another for the list - maps of London drawn from memory http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=memory+map+london&z=t

I like the idea of this and may do the same myself.

+ cheers Ed' for the thread, very interesting.

 

[IMR]

London Map of Sounds

 

[TruXta]

London Profiler is pretty handy.

 

[1927]

I'm a little surprised they're getting away with what I would think was a breach of copyright. IIRC TfL were tough on this at one time. Maybe they have permission or policy has changed . . .

They certainly need to swat up on their knowledge of US State capitals.

 

[RoyReed]

I've just finished my map of all the London Blue Plaques. It's taken a while - there are nearly 1,000 of them.

 

[mao]

Camille Pisarro used to live in Upper Norwood
I think there is a blue plaque in Westo Hill.

 

[Dr Dolittle]

On alternative tube maps, there's also the anagram one, where every station name has been changed to an anagram of itself. Can't remember where it is tho' - The Londonist, perhaps?

 

[TruXta]

An interesting post on the Strange Maps website on Clapham Common's golden age of high society.

 

[IMR]

I still think this has to be the best London map mashup.

A dickybird tells me that Benjamin Davies's Waterworks of London map of 1863 is soon to be included, followed by Bartholomew's Road Surface Atlas of London

 

[RoyReed]

Sean O'Shea has produced an iPhone app of all of the English Heritage London Blue Plaques using the data that I collated for my Blue Plaques map. The app is free, so no reason not to download it now and start looking round London in a different way.

A version of the app optimised for iPad will be following soon as the 1.1 upgrade, and if the app proves popular we are hoping that there will be an Android version as well.



@mods - I hope this plug is OK (the app is free) but if not, please feel free to delete this post.

 

[porp]

Not sure it actually works, but what about the London Toilet Map?

http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2011/03/02/a-map-of-londons-public-toilets/

 

[Maggot]

London Map of Sounds

The person who made that map (who is an ex-urbanite) has done another brilliant map showing some of the rivers and canals in London - click on the location to hear the sounds.

E2A You have to open the link for it to work.

http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/waterways/

 

[mango5]

London's second languages by borough

 

[Roadkill]

That's fascinating.

Be interesting to see a similar map from a couple of decades ago, just to see how the pattern has changed over time. Polish and Lithuanian probably wouldn't feature nearly as strongly, for instance. Doubt the info is there to do it, though.

 

[Roadkill]

Tube map rebalanced for South London

I remember seeing that when I lived in Charlton and wishing it was real: Maryon Park tube station would have been pretty much outside my front door.

 

[brogdale]

The person who made that map (who is an ex-urbanite) has done another brilliant map showing some of the rivers and canals in London - click on the location to hear the sounds.

E2A You have to open the link for it to work.

http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/waterways/

That is superb.

Went straight to my 'neck of the woods' (Waddon Ponds) and was instantly reminded of the late,great John Martyn's "Small hours". Wonderful....hours of fun.

 

[mango5]

London, Drowned. Maps at 40m and 80m of sea level rise.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Google maps overlayed with old maps

http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=5&lat=55.7424&lon=-2.955&layers=1

 

[Chz]

Alright! I've got seashore property at 40m. Woohoo!

 

[Lazy Llama]

I think we're below sea-level now, so I'd be quite damp if the level went 40m higher.

 

[Crispy]

I'm sure I've posted this before. Tube map transliterated into German:

 

[RoyReed]

Sean O'Shea has produced an iPhone app of all of the English Heritage London Blue Plaques using the data that I collated for my Blue Plaques map. The app is free, so no reason not to download it now and start looking round London in a different way.

A version of the app optimised for iPad will be following soon as the 1.1 upgrade, and if the app proves popular we are hoping that there will be an Android version as well.

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The Android version of this is now out.

 

[Crispy]

streets coloured by orientation (ie N-S, E-W)

http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/maps/enhanced-street-grids/?lat=51.50&lon=-0.13

 

[newbie]

great hybrid display of a good collection of maps

http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

 

[Impossible Girl]

Just for fun... Whovian and Shakespearian Tube Map. Just because

Doctor Who :

Shakespeare :

 

[Ponyutd]

Great thread.

 

[friendofdorothy]

great hybrid display of a good collection of maps

http://wtp2.appspot.com/wheresthepath.htm

Is that just of the Lake district?

 

[newbie]

Is that just of the Lake district?

when I open it it starts on the train shed at Waterloo, but there doesn't seem to be a way to link to that view. So no, it's the whole country I think, tho' I've only really used it for London.

Apart from the geology map, which is fascinating, eg there's bits of Bermondsey/Deptford that are blue and orange, with an island of green, and a right click explains why.

 

[mango5]

Interactive Snow Cholera map

 

[mango5]

"Street Trees of Southwark"