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Alternative Tube Maps: London Movies

Click image for bigger pic. We’re going to have to make this a daily feature – everyone’s making Tube mashups. Today’s offering comes from Total Film, whose readers have helped them assemble an alternative map where each station references a famous movie. What kind of …

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Visualisation Shows Cycle Hire Usage Patterns

Key: Blue (empty) – Red (full). See the map for full breakdown Oliver O’Brien, Research Associate at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has used TfL’s open-source data on cycle hire usage to create this wonderful interactive visualisation of how the bikes are being used. …

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London Mapped As A 1980′s Computer Game

Those of a certain vintage might find this map of London comfortingly familiar. Low-res territory maps were a common element of early 8-bit computer games for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and BBC Micro. Now, Brett Camper has produced a series of city maps that …

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London’s Twitter Traffic Mapped As Contoured Landscape

Our friends at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis never cease to amaze us. Today’s dose of digital craftsmanship shows the peaks and troughs of London’s Twitter traffic in the style of a contoured map. In a cute touch, areas of the capital are renamed …

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What If The Oil Spill Was In London?

A neat but alarming mashup from IfItWasMyHome.com allows you to place a representation of the Mexican Gulf oil spill over any other part of the globe. Here’s what it would look like if the filthy puddle could somehow spread over the southern UK counties, centered …