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London’s street network appears on a new cycling jacket – when you shine a light at it!<\/p>\n
Showerspass<\/a>, a Portland (Oregon)-based company, has unveiled two new versions of their Elite cycling jacket – “Hi-Vis<\/a>” and “Torch<\/a>” versions (each of these are available in Women’s and Men’s cuts). Both of the designs contain MapReflect, which is a rather brilliant idea for using a map design as a reflective panel. The map is a stitched together pattern featuring the street networks for various different cities, including part of London – specifically Whitechapel, Wapping and Rotherhithe in east London, as well as part of the River Thames’s most famous wiggle. You can see the London section in a couple of places – as well as on the main part of the jacket (see bottom photo), it appears on a sleeve:<\/p>\n The Hi-Vis jackets are predominately neon green and have the map section in their side panels and underside of the sleeve in two versions – Silver Reflective, where the road\/pathlines are black and the spaces between the roads is reflective, and Black Reflective, where the road network itself is reflective, on a black background. <\/p>\n The Torch jackets have the colours reversed, so the main body of the jacket is reflective, with the street\/path network overlaid in Black. These are pretty intense when you shine a light straight on!<\/p>\n![\"showerspass_londonmap\"](\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/showerspass_londonmap.jpg\")
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