2013-04-25
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Transamerica Pyramid cookie, from Transamerica Tower opens visitor center and giftshop at the San Francisco Business Times. (Sadly it looks like it’s really just a gift shop.)
2012-04-06
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London Icon Map by Calsidyrose on Flickr:
For the Danish traveler—a tour booklet about London.
It’s odd that Senate House and the Guildhall - not usually thought of as tourist destinations - are on here. So’s the Royal Festival Hall, which is nice.
2012-03-19
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2012-03-15
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2011-09-22
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2009-11-03
Permanant changes to London for 2012 Olympics
PDF, via bustops.
It claims that “13,300 new hotel rooms will be available throughout London by 2012”, yet it lists the Savoy Hotel, which is a bit cheeky, as that’s been there for a hundred years (although, admittedly, it is closed at the moment).
Some of the business buildings listed (oddly, under “leisure” seem a little optomistic. It also promises that Tate Modern 2 (apparently its official name; how terrible) will be “ready in time for the 2012 Olympics.”. If I were one for claim chowder, I’d be archiving a copy of this to drag out in 1000 days.
2009-04-27
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Why not make it London Map Afternoon here? Here’s a map of London’s attractions, one of many at Mapping The World’s Photos, by David Crandall, Lars Backstrom, Dan Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg. There’s a boiled-down presentation at the New Scientist, too.
I love how the South Bank shows up as an almost solid line. Read more on how they built the maps in the paper (PDF).
via, inevitably, Aaron Straup Cope, one of Flickr’s crack geo-developer types.
