{"id":786,"date":"2011-12-05T08:39:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=786"},"modified":"2016-01-27T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:13:08","slug":"ucl-hand-drawn-map-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2011\/ucl-hand-drawn-map-of-london\/","title":{"rendered":"UCL Hand Drawn Map of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ucl_map1.png\" alt=\"ucl_map1\" width=\"1221\" height=\"767\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ucl_map1.png 1221w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ucl_map1-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ucl_map1-1024x643.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1221px) 100vw, 1221px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Step aside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/magnificentmaps\/map4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Walter<\/a>,\u00a0over 270 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">UCL<\/a> students (and staff) have created their own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartopedia.co.uk\/blog\/uclmaplondon.html\" target=\"_blank\">interactive\u00a0hand<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartopedia.co.uk\/blog\/uclmaplondon.html\" target=\"_blank\"> drawn map of London<\/a>. Organised by two students <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartopedia.co.uk\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alistair Leak <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/visualmetro.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Morton<\/a>\u00a0from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk\/casa\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis<\/a>, the map has brought out some great insights into what people think of their city. Sometimes inaccurate, frequently crude but always personal, the map could serve as an abstract and slightly whacky guide to modern day London. Highlights include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battersea.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Battersea Dogs Home<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ucl_map_dogs.png\" alt=\"ucl_map_dogs\" width=\"556\" height=\"346\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ucl_map_dogs.png 556w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ucl_map_dogs-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Queen_Victoria\" target=\"_blank\">Queen Victoria Pub<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/queen_vc.png\" alt=\"queen_vic\" width=\"986\" height=\"620\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/queen_vc.png 986w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/queen_vc-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crystal_Palace_Dinosaurs\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Palace Dinosaurs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dinos.png\" alt=\"dinos\" width=\"444\" height=\"264\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dinos.png 444w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dinos-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alistair and Ian were keen that all\u00a0contributors\u00a0get a mention by making sure they signed around the edges. You can see some of them in action below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#uclmaplondon - Day 5\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P6c8UjXo22g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step aside Stephen Walter,\u00a0over 270 UCL students (and staff) have created their own interactive\u00a0hand drawn map of London. Organised by two students Alistair Leak and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[49,75,90,157],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-demographics","tag-crowd-source","tag-hand-drawn-map","tag-london","tag-ucl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5081,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/5081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}