A Map Of London’s Fire Engine Callouts
Beautiful visualisation by James Cheshire.
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Map: London’s Foursquare Data, Visualised
Where do Londoners like to eat, shop and drink?
Visualisation: The Ebb And Flow Of London’s Public Transport
Prepare to be hypnotised…
A Map Of London’s Commonest Surnames
What are London’s most common surnames by area? A new map helps visualise the spread of London’s names and ethnicities.
All Of London’s Murders…Mapped
A new site is compiling data on every reported murder in the capital’s history, and then mapping the results. Murder Map will eventually bring together the incredible archives of the Old Bailey with details of modern murders. In the site owner’s own words: Murder Map …
Foursquare Data Hints At London’s Cultural Hubs
Another day, another intriguing visualisation of social data. PhD student Anil Bawa-Cavia has used check-in data from the Foursquare network to gauge London’s most popular venues. Foursquare, for those who haven’t tried it, is a service that lets you declare your presence in a given …
‘Dimensions’ Plots Newsy Objects On London
How much space would the Pentagon take up if, for some absurd reason, it had been built in Trafalgar Square? How about the Giza pyramids? Or Stonehenge? Or even a deep sea trawler net? And did you know that the deepest hole ever drilled, if …
Tube Trains Mapped In Real Time
This nifty little visualisation from Matthew Somerville shows every Tube train moving along in (something very close to) real time. (Note, image above is static – click through for the real thing.) Yellow pins show stations and red pins are trains. Matthew cobbled the map …
Digital Cities At New London Architecture
A new exhibition at NLA looks at the way computer visualisation is assisting architects and city planners in London. Highlights include Terry Farrell’s mindmapping of the built environment, the modelling of cities in Second Life, and swooping three-dimensional reconstructions of the city. While visually arresting, …
