http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29915801superb range of maps including Ethnicity, passports, shippingh in the Thames, lost property, football by twitter user and commuting.
Absolutely fascinating - click the link if you fancy losing a slice of time.
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I love an infographic and I love London... going to buy the book
Confirms what I knew about Tottenham i.e. hardly any fans in London itself, very much a Home Counties team. Either that or all their London fans don't have Twitter.
1. In which year did the population of London peak at 8.6m?
2. Bovingdon, Ockham and Lambourne are three what?
3. In only two London boroughs is 'Bus' the most popular method of transport to go to work. Which ones?
4. Which tube line has the highest suicide rate?
5. What in 2013 linked a kayak, a rottweiler, 510 watches and 6,570 items of clothing?
6. What is the busiest day of the week for the 'Emirates Air Line' cable car?
7. What are Yantlet, Barrow and Knob?
8. Lancaster Gate to Paddington takes 18 minutes by tube. How long would it take walking at an average speed?
9. Which borough has the highest number of drink related 999 calls?
10. Visitors of which nationality spend most per head when visiting London?
11. If all of a day's Metro papers with placed in a single stack, how many times higher than The Shard would it be?
12. Which two locations in the Borough of Greenwich have protected views. Name them.
2. Something to do with airspace
3. tower hamlets and Lambeth
4. District
5. lost property
6. none?
7. Thames shipping lanes?
8. 8 mins
9. Camden
10. China
11. 3 times
12 view from top of the park over Queens house and Royal Collage and somewhere overlooking the parade ground at Woolwich army barracks.
All guesses and mostly wrong i would bet
5. Yes, but where?
7. Yes - channels in the Estuary.
12. Greenwich Park is one them (like most of the other protected views - it's the view to St Paul's).
5. public transport
5. Still looking for more precision
Forgotten what an amazing book this is. Thanks for the reminder
If it's not lost property (maybe one station?) then the link must be Dave in The Carpenters in Lewisham. He's tried to sell me 510 watches over the years!
4. The Northern Line
10, Saudi's
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2. Aircraft landing stacks.
3. Southwark & ??????
4. Northern Line
5. All handed into the lost property office at ????????
6.
7. Channels in the Thames estuary.
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9.
10. Saudi Arabia. Average £2,700 per person per visit.
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12. Greenwich Park and ????????
1939 - bingo. You may well be right about it returning to that level this year se9. There's a graph in the book that's certainly heading in that direction but hadn't made it by time of publication.