MetaFilter posts tagged with London and map

Human GPS

vidur — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:15:39 -0800

"Piloting London’s distinctive black cabs (taxis to everyone else) is no easy feat. To earn the privilege, drivers have to pass an intense intellectual ordeal, known charmingly as The Knowledge. Ever since 1865, they’ve had to memorise the location of every street within six miles of Charing Cross – all 25,000 of the capital’s arteries, veins and capillaries. They also need to know the locations of 20,000 landmarks – museums, police stations, theatres, clubs, and more – and 320 routes that connect everything up." Acquiring The Knowledge changes the brains of those who acquire it.

You're gonna go up the street 12 pixels, hang a left, then straight 44 pixels to 77th street...

BeerFilter — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:30:33 -0800

8bit Cities: Amsterdam - Austin - Berlin - Detroit - London - New York - Paris - San Francisco - Seattle - Washington, D.C.

Awesome Outsider Cartography

Monkeymoo — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:20:35 -0800

OMG it's a huuuge hand drawn map of London. And with psychogeographical annotations too! Of previous psychogeographical interest.

MIND THE GAP

normy — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 04:44:45 -0800

Harry Beck's famous map [current 287K .gif version] of the London Underground has a long history and is often praised as a definitive example of excellent information design. Many consider it unimprovable, but that doesn't stop many others trying. The latest variant is a project by Oskar Karlin, redesigning the map to illustrate journey time [warning: large, slow loading .pdf]. [partly via]

Open Street Map

vacapinta — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:49:57 -0800

OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world, using uploaded GPS traces. So far: London and several other cities have been mapped. (via dataisnature)