Automated Cartography: The urban expansion of Lansing
I hadn’t seen this video before. It demonstrates one of the earliest attempts at automated cartography for the display of time with spatial data. Truly gr...
Author: James Cheshire
mappinglondon.co.uk: Another Blog about Maps!
Followers of spatialanalysis.co.uk will know that a lot of maps I feature are about London. Many of these maps have caught the eye of those outside of the geogr...
ESRI (UK) Case Study
Buried deep in the ESRI (UK) website is a case study I helped put together showcasing some of the ways we use GIS (specifically ESRI products) within UCL Depart...
Mapping London's Population Change 1801-2030
Buried in the London Datastore are the population estimates for each of the London Boroughs between 2001 – 2030. They predict a declining population for m...
Using R to Map with Google Chart Tools
The release of the R package “googleVis” has made the production of interactive maps through Google’s Chart Tools a simple task. Ignoring the some basic d...
Brilliant Boris Bikes Animation
Some of us at CASA can’t get enough of the Barclay’s Cycle Hire data. We have had Ollie‘s hugely successful flow maps, journey time heat maps,...
Carto-Junk?
The National Geographic Surname Map has generated a lot of discussion both online and via email. The response has been overwhelmingly positive but some people, ...
2010 Muslim Populations By Country
Using the release of the "Muslim Populations By Country" dataset from the Guardian Datastore I have produced a cartogram to visualise the data. The size of the ...
My Week in Maps
This week has been a busy one with the “publication” of a couple of maps I have been involved with alongside the circulation of a few cartographic g...
Mapping London's Surnames
Inspired by the What’s in a Surname? map we helped make with the National Geographic, I have created 15 interactive typographic maps to show the most popu...