Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
These tube-style Brexit maps are a clever way of visualising the myriad of sectors and issues the withdrawal process impacts. Just by looking at the maps, it becomes easier to understand the scope and scale of the negative consequences facing the UK.
Each map focuses on a UK region, with each each zone representing a policy sphere, each line representing a sector and each station representing a particular Brexit issue.
One of the great things about running Brilliant Maps is the ability to profile brilliant, original map projects.
The Art Deco & Brutalist architecture maps of London by Blue Crow Media fall firmly into that category.
The map above shows what the Roman City of Londinium (modern day London) might have looked like around 200 AD.
The brilliant isochrone world map above shows how long it takes to get from London to any other point in the world in 2016.
It was created by the team at Rome2rio, who specialise in helping people get anywhere on earth, and is an update to the famous 1914 map by cartographer and geographer John George Bartholomew (see below)
The map shows the Greater London commuter belt, or more specifically the percentage of workers who work in London, but live outside it.
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You can use it to create really cool maps like the London watercolour map above or the maps of just London’s parks or just London’s water below.
The map above shows the best selling musical acts (band or singer) to come from each of London’s boroughs. The criteria used was as follows:
Smelly Maps: The Digital Life of Urban Smellscapes is the amazing title of this series of maps that look at how London smells. The smelly maps project involves Daniele Quercia, Rossano Schifanella (University of Torino), Luca Maria Aiello (Yahoo Labs) and Kate McLean (Royal College of Art).
London’s tube map, arguably the most famous transportation map in the world, has just been updated for 2015. The reason is that Transport of London (TFL), which makes the map, has added some new services.
For those not living in London, TFL are the government body responsible for a large part of the transportation system of London. In addition to running London Underground they also run:
Ever think London’s tube map looks confusing? Now imagine trying to use it, but you couldn’t easily distinguish between the colours of each line.
Well for hundreds of thousands of colour blind Londoners, this is their reality each and every day.