As an addendum (thanks to Roberto Gagliardi la Gala for the extra information) there is a similar work that has been carried out in 2009: the GLA (former LDA) launched the London Heat Map – which links to an interactive GIS map (registration needed to access full functionalities) – in order to show heat consumption data, heat supply potential and opportunities for Decentralised Energy... Strava, one of a number of services that walkers, runners and cyclists can use with their smartphones, recording and uploading their routes, has released a heatmap showing the activity uploaded to the network on Saturday 20 July. Bonus Map: The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 was published in March. So next time you are heading east of the City, give salaam a try, or hola south of the river. In total I have squeezed 40 maps on this page! I then traced over that map in Inkscape to add in the Overground and the selected other railway... Mapping London Life is the title of the talk I gave at a great event organised by the Londonist and hosted by TAG Fine Arts. There are also some trees that were added manually before, and have been added manually since, by other OpenStreetMap contributors. It gives utilities, boroughs, and developers a clear picture of what developments are taking place, so that they can plan better for new housing and other changes. The London Tube Map is a seminal piece of design. In the poorer north east boroughs, the pattern is different with a strong additional commute flow to intermediate boroughs, as well as the local and central-London flows. JUMP bikes – weekend usage heatmap from Uber Movement. There is an online Google-powered map, Endless Orchard, but Mapping London was particularly taken with their printed maps, some of which are on display as part of an exhibition on depictions of fruit, at the V&A Museum in South Kensington. The book’s RRP is £25 and it is currently selling like hot mince pies on Amazon and in various bookshops across London and beyond. Transport for London are proposing a Central London Grid of branded cycling routes in the capital. We encourage software developers to use these feeds to present customer travel information in innovative ways - providing they adhere to the transport data terms and conditions. Edit your map data. Instead, it looks at the migration that happens when Londoners form families and need a bigger space than they can afford in their local borough or pensioners that yearn for the seaside or a quieter part of London (e.g. The graphic shows that in some of London’s boroughs, the figure is (relatively) low – and remember, 50% of properties in such boroughs sold for lower still. Scott used QGIS and OpenStreetMap data to create an attractive, vintage-style basemap and then shaded residential areas with different colours indicating when each block was developed. This is a beta version of the first open planning data map for London. A version of this map appears in London: The Information Capital, by James Cheshire and Oliver Urberti (who added an attractive colour key using the leaf shapes of each tree genus). We also sometimes include Amazon UK referral links to provide direct links to buy books/maps that we feature. Thanks to Ed (@EdThink) for allowing the graphic to be reproduced. We’ve featured a number of the graphics in previous posts too. The POI data comes from the aformentioned social networks and also data from OpenStreetMap, Data.gov.uk and TfL. The smaller clubs tend to have a core support near the stadium itself, while the larger ones have a more dispersed popularity but still a core area of near-unanimous support, by the stadium itself. The technique is both clever and simple at the same time – it’s a neat bit of D3.js programming, and the results are easy to interpret and navigate. Eton Manor Transport Hub used to be known as East Marsh – part of Hackney Marshes. This is an impressive number – this must make London one of the greenest large areas in England. The London Borough Profiles help paint a general picture of an area by presenting a range of headline indicator data in both spreadsheet and map form to help show statistics covering demographic, economic, social and environmental datasets for each borough, alongside relevant comparator areas. Nevertheless it is a nice visual piece of work, particularly as it screens out the larger parks and the unpopulated areas within Greater London, as well as including some populated areas beyond the boundary, i.e. It also shows that once again, the Central line is the line that you really don’t want to be on (and that should have had many of its journey now replaced by the Elizabeth line – however that is now very late). (Some of the white areas in the suburbs indicate where flats are not generally sold, regardless of price). There are also a couple events taking place to mark the launch of the book. This map, though, shows that moving grounds is nothing new in London’s footballing history. Above is a map from Mapping London co-editor Dr Cheshire’s new book The Information Capital that appeared in this week’s Time Out (print & online). Background map copyright Google 2013. He was able to obtain the GPS tracks from a large company’s fleet of drivers. IMD 2010 data from the Department of Communities and Local... LOCOG (The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) yesterday released a new map of the key Olympic Park in east London, as part of their 200-days-to-go celebrations. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. London: The Information Capital This brand new book by Mapping London co-editor James Cheshire, contains “100 maps and graphics that will change how you view the city” and it certainly is a book that sits at the intersection of London, mapping and data. In some cases this may only be a small number of properties (and Heathrow is removed altogether as there are obviously no sales there!) Tube trains are shown as blobs moving along their network – the map is near-live, although the trains locations are based on timetabled frequency rather than actual live position. Narrow Street (near Canary Wharf) also appears. Above is the map of houseshares. Following a data release of Southwark’s publically maintained trees a couple of years back, the Greater London Authority recently published a map which shows street trees (trees along roads and public paths, and trees in public open spaces, such as small parks and other minor green areas). An obvious additional datasource for refinement would be LIDAR (which is released as open data by the Environment Agency, often at sub-metre horizontal resolution), which can accurately detect height changes. This method is an improvement on previous work (and the video), which has simply assumed the buses travel in a straight line between stops- in the map above the buses follow the road network. CCTV cameras, traffic lights, Barclays Cycle Hire docking stations, tube stations, ATMs and mobile phone transmitter masts) and for the most recent social media posts (Flickr and Instagram photos, FourSquare checkins and Tweets). You must be logged in to request access to this dataset. For example, in the affluent boroughs to the south west, most commute flow seems to either remain within the borough itself, or to the centre of London. the east and south-west boroughs) or somewhere else in the UK, balanced against a steady, but often temporary, move to the universities and graduate opportunities in the capital. Missing travelling on the London Underground? All the bollards on the map below have been voluntarily mapped as part of the OpenStreetMap project. Where are London’s most haunted houses (and pubs)? Flying around central London in Google Earth, with Adrian’s KML file loaded in, reveals canyons of empty docking stations, mountains of bikes. The theme of recording your life’s movements by GPS is one which we know well here at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. Now, you can see the trains running, live, on this custom-made circuit board showing thetube network. Still, it has good coverage in many parts of London and reveals interesting patterns, not only in planting patterns differing coverage across different streets, but also the variation of species – for example, the red dots in the extract below show lines of pear trees in Marylebone. This map, of the modelled 2020 annual pollution levels of NO2, has been produced by Parallel, using the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory 2013 (LAEI) dataset that was published by the Greater London Authority in 2016 (they have since published a slightly updated version). Notes about the indicator are provided in comment boxes attached to the indicator names. In the most recent week of complete data, 05 December 2020 - 11 December 2020, 26,782 cases were identified in London, a rate of 299 cases per 100,000 population. You then sit back and let the code do its magic, as the map warps and the circles grow and shift into their new data values. The data presented is a high resolution map of tree canopy cover for the Greater London area. Here’s a map of the “cool” professions: Hotspots: Chiswick, Kilburn, Kentish Town, Muswell Hill, Crouch End, Stoke Newington, Dalston, Clapton, Covent Garden, Brockley, Camberwell, Brixton, Twickenham. This map, “Hooking Up”, was produced by the Evening Standard newspaper as part of their Future London project, in association with Source London, a service provider/lobbyist of charging points in London, and Zap-Map, who hold a comprehensive database of the locations of these facilities. You may be interested in this review of an excellent book on OpenStreetMap that I recently wrote. Having read a number of blogs based on the crime figures from the UK police dataI decided to do a bit of exploration with this data. The overall piece is a lovely bit of digital cartography that shows effectively and attractively the residential history of this London suburb. Copyright The GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2011. Conversely, a large blue area near the south edge of the map might be early premptive groundwork on the Northern line Underground extension to Battersea Power Station, and the extensive residential works at Battersea Power Station (which is right at river/sea level) and the Vauxhall area in general. The data is available across England, although I’ve chosen London in particular because of its more interesting (i.e. You can choose up to three modes of transport at once, with the three showing as three circles of different colours (red, yellow and blue) superimposed on each other. Foreground data copyright Nike and the running... Here’s a map of Zone 1 London (concentrating on the tube lines) constructed with sprites from the old-skool (80s!) Like tube lines, it seems sitcoms ignore this part of London. This particular variable was already mapped by property and mapping/charting whizz Neal Hudson, and was picked up by the Economist as a good measure too. As the map above shows if all the timetabled buses in London literally did show up at the same time you would be stuck in an impressive traffic jam. Yes, there is a London map in it! Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by Wordpress. The map is on the CDRC Maps platform, part of the new Consumer Data Research Centre. You can find more about the work in the blog posts by James andOllie. Hotspots: Ealing, Shepherd’s Bush, Forest Gate, Leyton, Bloomsbury, Clapham, Tooting, Fulham, West Hampstead, Borough, Shoreditch, Harringay, Tottenham Hale, Hackney. Find out how I made these maps... Demeter Sztanko has produced a stunning, minimalistic visualisation of the routes of the first 1.4 million Barclays Cycle Hire bikes. Potentially very controversial and inherently simplified – with internal migration within London, can an area really have just a one or two allegiances (the latter represented with stripes)? As the local level approaches that threshold, the colours get increasingly firey, suggesting that, if prices continue to rise, the burnt edge will continue to expand. Click on the comparators to make them appear on the chart and map. There is also a version that animates through the last 48 hours. A detailed breakdown of the way crimes are counted are available from the Home Office website. It’s one of the clearest and most informative websites I’ve seen for a while and an excellent example of combining statistical and geographical open data sources with sensible simplification and good web design, to create a compelling and informative website. The Guardian produced this map of the planned route. The most obvious is the red line running across the middle – the Crossrail tunnels across central London. So don’t use it for journey planning, but it might give you some ideas on places, for sure. The large red area to the east could be two projects – various residential and other construction around the O2 Arena in North Greenwich, and the various works on the north bank opposite – London City Island, Limmo Peninsula shaft for Crossrail tunnelling works, and general residential tower development at Canning Town. temporarily out of stock, but you can pre-order for delivery expected soon). The 3D spikes therefore don’t obscure the rest of the map, as they are generally constrained to quite linear features. Will has taken the individual origin/destination data and applied a routing algorithm to determine the likely route. Welcome to the Mapping London Christmas List 2016! Two blurred areas – at Canary Wharf and the eastern part of the City of London – are likely a combination of a large number of runners and the GPS multipath-interference effect of the very tall, close together buildings in these areas. See also this heatmap of running routes using Nike+ apps which we highlighted earlier this year. Ed goes into detail about the map on the Urban Movements blog, which also includes a larger version of the graphic extending to cover the whole of London – the version here is slightly cropped to focus on Zones 1-4. So it’s a good first analysis of London’s tree cover, but does need some refining. You can set two variables – one, a list of categorical measures, controls the colours, and the other, a list of qualitative measures, controls the area sizes. Whether you’re a citizen, business owner, researcher or developer, the site provides over 700 datasets to help you understand the city and develop solutions to London’s problems. The centre of London predictably has intense traffic from both Twitter and Flickr. One of my favourite London views, although not protected as it doesn’t include St Paul’s Cathedral or the Houses of Parliament, is the one from the hill in the middle of Brockwell Park, just south of Brixton. Conversely, Broadway Market in the east, Hampstead Village in the west and Highbury Fields in the north are three key destinations for bikeshare users at weekends – where there is no strong directional flow. The map shows a wireframe style map of London – using OpenStreetMap data for building outlines and augmenting them with POIs for electronic features in streets (e.g. First of all I needed some data to work with. Greener colours indicate a higher proportion. The other 22% speak in different tongues, including Urdu, Somali and Tagalog. It is an aggregation of data that is © Transport for... You may remember this map produced by Mapping London co-editor James in 2012. Above – crime rate for each London ward, based on crimes per resident population, 2014/15, Met Police area only. Distinct zones, within which many journeys start and finish, form out of the network, and have been coloured to distinguish them from adjacent zones. You can find out more here or pick up a copy on Amazon now or in all good bookshops from the 30th. As each stand fill with bikes, the colour goes from blue to red. For many areas, this works well, however there are other places which have a rich distribution of house ages, where the modal decade is not actually that useful. Other red lines show electrical ducting projects and other utilities/infrastructure projects. Chances are, this “April Fools” gift is only going to be around until the end of April 1, so get playing! Well, maybe not. 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