Category Archives: Cartography

Mar
26
2013

Harry Beck Style Canal Map

by Skippy

The first diagrammatic map of London’s rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931.[3] Beck was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only [...]

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Jan
21
2013

The moving of Projects

by Philip McGaw

I have recently rethought about how I want to lay out my on-line presence. Since getting a job where I can do awesome things, and get paid for them, I am going to start putting more time and effort into keeping PhilipMcGaw.com updated. I have already uploaded and plan to keep up-to-date the write up of FACTs “Art [...]

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Jun
09
2011

Another Map of London Canals

by Skippy

Another map of the Canals in and around London, this one comes from British Waterways, via WaterScape.

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Jun
03
2011

Squee, Map of waterway treasures

by Skippy

Themes21 are an environmental charity working with London communities to bring London’s waterways to life. They plan to clean up waterside grot-spots, remove graffiti and create new habitats for wildlife and aim to transform neglected and littered waterways into areas that everyone can use and enjoy. As one of the projects they have put together, they are [...]

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May
17
2011

Google Earth Canal Maps

by Skippy

Google Earth Canal Maps GECM (Google Earth Canal Maps) is an on-going attempt to maps all the canals of the UK on Google Earths/Google Maps, including all the derelict ans in-filled ones. its a cool cartography project.

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May
16
2011

Hand Drawn Map of London's Docklands

by Skippy

Found this via this page; Its a cool hand drawn map of the part of the Thames I most recently walked; speaking about that; I still need to poke those photos onto my blog

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May
04
2011

London Canal Map

by Skippy

Amy of nb Lucky Duck found this map on the Internet; It is a nice visual representation of the waterways in London, in the style of Harry Beck’s London Underground Map.

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