UCL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS. Mapping London. Oliver O Brien and James Cheshire. Society of Cartographers 48 th Annual Conference (UCL)

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1 UCL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS Mapping London Oliver O Brien and James Cheshire Society of Cartographers 48 th Annual Conference (UCL) 5 September 2012

2 The Mapping London Blog A blog highlighting the best London maps Not to be confused with: London Mapping Festival London in Maps (book) Mapping London (book) London Mapper (forthcoming project showing demographic cartograms)

3 mappinglondon.co.uk Launched March 2011 Featured 87 maps so far We take turns to feature maps we discover Aim to feature new, mainly online content rather than just focusing on the (huge) number of old maps of London Almost all content featured so far is >1900.

4 Mapping London Aim to showcase the map, not dissect it Normally only a short amount of commentary about the map Normally feature a closeup of the map highlighting its cartography, rather than the whole map

5 Occasionally not a map

6 Themes Transport: 31 Visualisation: 31 Infographics: 13 Demographics: 12 Events: 12 Historic: 12 Data: 9 Policy: 4 Art: 3 N.B. Some maps appear in more than one category.

7 Historic or New? Both.

8 Tube Maps Trying not to have every other featured map being an adaptation of the tube map, but

9 Tube-Style Maps

10 Ollie s 3 Favourite Maps

11 Ollie s 3 Favourite Maps

12 Ollie s 3 Favourite Maps

13 Bonus Favourite Map (Not Yet Featured)

14 James 3 Favourite Maps

15 James 3 Favourite Maps

16 James 3 Favourite Maps

17 The Most Popular Maps on Mapping London Olympic Park Map (39k & 8k) Massive spike (11k) on Friday 20 July Jenni Sparks Hand Drawn Map of London (24k) Thanks to a mention from Londonist Mapped: Every Bus Trip in London (9k) London: A Year in Maps 2011 summary (8k) Mapping London s Underground Rivers (5k) TfL s Why Not Walk It Maps (5kK)

18 How People Find Mapping London

19 Our Own Work Also an output for some of our own maps Cartography by James Cheshire Website by Oliver O Brien

20 names.mappinglondon.co.uk London Surnames Launched March 2011 Second wave of media interest August 2012 The map shows the 15 most frequent surnames in each Middle Super Output Area across Greater London. The colours represent the origin of the surname (*not necessarily* the person) derived from UCL s Onomap Classification tool. The surnames have also been scaled by their total frequency in each MSOA.

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22 names.mappinglondon.co.uk London version of a National Geographic infographic map produced in-house with James Ph.D data

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25 names.mappinglondon.co.uk Striking patterns appear, particularly when viewing the No. 1 name Distinct clustering of surnames with Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani Sikh, Jewish and English names. Some correlation with borough boundaries Tower Hamlets: Bangladeshi Waltham Forest (southern half): Pakistani Begum actually a Bangladeshi honorific for wives Welsh surnames not necessarily Welsh people Data from the full electoral roll c

26 life.mappinglondon.co.uk Lives on the Line Life Expectancy at Birth and Child Poverty as a Tube Map Launched July 2012 Extending the popular tube/river map to show two sets of potentially correlated demographic data together Based on geographically accurate tube map Thames from OpenStreetMap

27 life.mappinglondon.co.uk Cheshire, J A. Lives on the Line: Mapping Life Expectancy Along the London Tube Network. Environment and Planning A 44(7). Doi: /a45341.

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30 Plans Continue to feature maps roughly once a week Produce and feature more of our own maps Using the excellent resources at UCL CASA Feature more maps by colleagues Create more mapping mini-sites

31 Tips Wanted Tips are always welcome Let us know by (coming up) We also have a Twitter account for Mapping

32 Samples Grand Map of London A Guide to London 1908 Arty Globe: A Quirky View of London Tube Map Tape Times Atlas of London A New Map of London Peculiars Tweets in London A-Z London 2012 Map TfL s Why Not Walk It Maps Typographic Tube Map A Week in the Life of the Underground

33 Thanks mappinglondon.co.uk Oliver O Brien ollie [at] mappinglondon.co.uk James Cheshire james [at] mappinglondon.co.uk

34 Acknowledgements Almost all the maps featured here are the copyright of their creators please see the corresponding entry on the Mapping London blog for full attribution information. Various maps contain OpenStreetMap data (CC-By-SA OpenStreetMap contributors) and/or Ordnance Survey data which is Crown Copyright. The infographic on the fifth page was created by Jon Reades with TfL data. What s in a Surname (US) was designed by National Geographic Magazine.