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The Coolest New Maps of London
From an infographic of Olympic venues to street-by-street damage inflicted by the Blitz.
Some maps simply tell you how to get from here to there, but others give you a unique glimpse into the character of a place. With the eyes of the world on the Olympics for the next couple weeks, we looked to the blog Mapping London for some cartographic insight into the host city.
The site, run by Ollie O'Brien and James Cheshire of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, has posted some 80 London maps over the past year and a half. The works range in subject from demographics and data to transportation and history.