Mapping Hacks

Harry Beck’s schematic map of London’s Tube network is constantly cited as a design classic and a cartographic inspiration. I am one of many people who’ve made a “spatially accurate” version of the Tube map for kicks.

ChrisDodo pointed us at an interesting spin on the idea - a schematic map of the UK motorway network. Being a non-driver, i have no idea whether this map is useful as well as beautiful, though.

The reason i mention this here is another more fun map on the motorwaymap.co.uk site - a spatially accurate rendering of the Monopoly board in central London. I wonder what could be learned from overlaying this with census and demographic data from 1935; and whether, if Monopoly was played over London again today, the distribution and balance between rich and poor areas would have changed much over the years; I also wonder whether there’d be interesting structural similarities between spatially accurate Monopoly maps in different cities… it’s a lovely mapping hack, anyway.

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