London from space

London from space at night. Picture made by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield from International Space Station in February, 2013. Click to enlarge

The London Building Heights Map

The Building Heights in London map is a great advertisement for vector maps. Up until a few days ago this map was incredibly taxing on the browser and almost impossible to navigate. Now all the building height data has been added to the base map as vector tiles and it works like a dream. The map uses data from the Environment Agency's open LIDAR data. As you might expect the map shows that the