The city of London has grown into one of the largest urban zones in all of Europe, but it wasn't always the gigantic, sprawling city it is today. The cartographers at Axis Maps put together a set of ...

Six students from De Montfort University won first prize in the Off The Map challenge when they turned maps of seventeenth century London into a detailed 3D world. The challenge was sponsored by ...

With its iconic architecture, jam-packed history and busy urban life, London is one of the most photographed cities in the world (over 57 million photographs have the hashtag #London on Instagram ...

These strip maps of roads around London come from an atlas printed in 1790 by mapmaker John Cary. For travelers moving on foot or on horseback, the level of local information in Cary’s maps allowed ...

If you've often wondered what London was like in the past, you can now find out – thanks to a new interactive map that shows users what parts of the city looked like up to over a century ago. The ...