{"id":2297,"date":"2013-06-06T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T10:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2013-06-06T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T14:52:06","slug":"where-london-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2013\/where-london-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Where London Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/where_london_runs.jpg\" alt=\"where_london_runs\" width=\"867\" height=\"527\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/where_london_runs.jpg 867w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/where_london_runs-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a screenshot of a <a href=\"http:\/\/nikeplus.nike.com\/plus\/places\/#\/Create\/51.51134856191861\/-0.16665628395355014\/13\">heatmap of runs<\/a> carried out in central London, using the <a href=\"http:\/\/nikeplus.nike.com\/plus\/\">Nike+<\/a> training &#8220;app&#8221; which utilises a phone&#8217;s built-in GPS to record the route. Many runs are aggregated and then combined into this heatmap, which is overlaid on the regular Google Maps terrain layer.<\/p>\n<p>The result reveals the most common running routes in London. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyde_Park,_London\">Hyde Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Regent's_Park\">Regent&#8217;s Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battersea_Park\">Battersea Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria_Park,_London\">Victoria Park<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clapham_Common\">Clapham Common<\/a> stand out, as does the canal network, particular the section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Regents-Canal-Towpath-Olympic\/dp\/0711233470\/ref=as_li_ss_mfw?&#038;linkCode=wey&#038;tag=mappinglondon-21\">Regent&#8217;s Canal<\/a> between Victoria Park and Dalston, and also routes along the river &#8211; particularly the classic loop between Westminster Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narrow_Street\">Narrow Street<\/a> (near Canary Wharf) also appears. A few surprising areas &#8211; Southampton Way near Burgess Park, and Kilburn Grange Park, also show strongly on the heatmap &#8211; likely due to a very keen local regularly uploading their routes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nikeplus.nike.com\/plus\/places\/#\/Create\/51.51134856191861\/-0.16665628395355014\/13\">View the live map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Background map copyright Google 2013. Foreground data copyright Nike and the running participants.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a screenshot of a heatmap of runs carried out in central London, using the Nike+ training &#8220;app&#8221; which utilises a phone&#8217;s built-in GPS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[179,103,121,122,125,126,127],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","tag-heatmap","tag-nike","tag-route","tag-routes","tag-run","tag-runners","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}