{"id":1026,"date":"2012-01-09T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T09:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2018-12-13T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:40:21","slug":"grand-map-of-london-a-new-map-in-an-old-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2012\/grand-map-of-london-a-new-map-in-an-old-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellingtons Grand Map of London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After featuring many very modern maps on Mapping London thus far, it was a pleasure to hear about the Grand Map of London, produced by a small bespoke mapping company called Wellingtons Travel. Their idea was to produce an up-to-date map of London, featuring the latest City skyscrapers and other modern landmarks, as well as the more traditional “Ye Olde” buildings in the capital. In essence, it is a new map but with a distinctly antiquated look to it. Notable buildings are drawn in an isometric 3D style (kind of like a pretty version of the Google maps 3D building outlines) while other built-up blocks appear as hand-drawn shaded areas. Rivers and parks have similar, watercolour-style detail added to them. The Shard (which isn’t even fully built yet) appears, beside a free-floating and “steaming” HMS Belfast. The overall pastel brown, green and blue shades of the map are pleasing to the eye. Could that be ex-Mayor Boris on his bike near City Hall? <\/p>\n

The Grand Map of London (2012 edition) is a product of three years of careful work by neo-traditional mapmakers Anna Butler and Taige Zhang and covers approximately the Zone 1 area of central London. It available as a hard copy, printed on cotton canvas and presented as a scroll, in Blackwells bookshops and Stanfords, in London, as well as on the Wellingtons Travel website<\/a>. There is also a free iPhone app available<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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