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Transamerica Pyramid cookie, from Transamerica Tower opens...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:41:18 +0100

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.)

London Icon Map by Calsidyrose on Flickr: For the Danish...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:45:25 +0100

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.

"Working as a gas engineer in south London, Smith knew a thing or two about traffic jams and was..."

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:08:05 +0000

“Working as a gas engineer in south London, Smith knew a thing or two about traffic jams and was fascinated by roads. “It’s a random thing, it’s abstract, it’s eccentric. People have different interests. How do you quantify normality?””

- Patrick Barkham: M25 is UK’s newest tourist attraction, in The Guardian.

"The M25 was opened by Margaret Thatcher in 1986 and will endure as a monument to her era far longer..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:26:05 +0000

“The M25 was opened by Margaret Thatcher in 1986 and will endure as a monument to her era far longer than wars or broken unions. A visible symbol of individualism and the triumph of the car, the motorway was widened by the Blair government, building on the Iron Lady’s legacy in every way.”

- Patrick Barkham: M25 is UK’s newest tourist attraction in The Guardian.

"Some locals called for fees for non-resident vehicles, while others demanded that satnav companies..."

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:46:01 +0100

“Some locals called for fees for non-resident vehicles, while others demanded that satnav companies omit the neighbourhood from their systems.”

- Hollywood sign neighbours voice anger as tourism grows by Andrew Gumbel in The Guardian.

Permanant changes to London for 2012 Olympics

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:47:00 +0000

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.

Why not make it London Map Afternoon here? Here’s a map of...

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:26:09 +0100

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.