It’s already Sunday and I’ve exhausted my cache of unread blog posts from the week, so I went in search of new blogs to read and can across this really good one: Spatial Analysis. A post from December has this set of maps – private turnpikes in 18th century London and the congestion zone map in the 21st:
It looks to me like the old map is skewed and that they are actually quite similar, but I’m having trouble aligning them – maybe someone who knows London better than me could compare them for us?
Again, that’s from spatialanalysis.co.uk.
Marcin Tustin says
January 17, 2011 at 10:47 amThey’re fairly well aligned. The apparent differences are accounted for by a) the expense then and now of creating a map that exactly corresponds to survey data; and b) that the maps cover different areas. The old map extends further east, north, and south, although the western extent of both is about the same.