{"id":512,"date":"2011-08-08T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T13:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=512"},"modified":"2016-01-27T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:14:06","slug":"8-bit-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2011\/8-bit-london\/","title":{"rendered":"8-Bit London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s a bit silly, and not exactly very helpful as a map for navigation – but it’s also a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

Brett Camper<\/a> has taken the OpenStreetMap database<\/a> for several cities around the world, including London, and applied a styling that is reminiscent of the blocky graphics of early-1980s computer games. As you zoom in, more detail appears, but with the same square-block style. The project is 8 Bit Cities<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It’s a great example of “‘Boing Boing’ cartography” (“hey, that’s neat!”), as distinguished from machine-generated “industrial cartography” (a la Google Maps) and “artisan cartography” (hand-made historical maps), the three categories of cartography identified at a talk I was at the the Society of Cartographers Summer School last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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