Mapping London Oliver O’Brien and James Cheshire

UCL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL ANALYSIS

5 September 2012

Society of Cartographers 48th Annual Conference (UCL)

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)

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.

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

Occasionally not a map…

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.

Historic or New? Both.

Tube Maps

•  Trying not to have every other featured map being an adaptation of the tube map, but…

Tube-Style Maps

Ollie’s 3 Favourite Maps

Ollie’s 3 Favourite Maps

Ollie’s 3 Favourite Maps

Bonus Favourite Map (Not Yet Featured)

James’ 3 Favourite Maps

James’ 3 Favourite Maps

James’ 3 Favourite Maps

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)

How People Find Mapping London

Our Own Work

•  Also an output for some of our own maps –  Cartography by James Cheshire –  Website by Oliver O’Brien

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.

•  London version of a National Geographic infographic map produced in-house with James’ Ph.D data

names.mappinglondon.co.uk

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. 1998.

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

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: 10.1068/a45341.

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

Tips Wanted

•  Tips are always welcome –  Let us know by email (coming up)

•  We also have a Twitter account for Mapping London: @MapLondon

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

Thanks mappinglondon.co.uk

•  Oliver O’Brien –  Email: ollie [at] mappinglondon.co.uk –  Twitter: @oobr

•  James Cheshire –  Email: james [at] mappinglondon.co.uk –  Twitter: @spatialanalysis

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.