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Tube Map Central: News and Events

This page highlights new articles, media interviews, dates for your diary, and other events and announcements.


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10th/11th April 2025: Workshop

Fourth Schematic Mapping Workshop

EIVP, Paris: See the workshop website
for details of programme, registration, and organisation.


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August 2024: Five documents added to Web Articles page

These are short articles first published on LinkedIn and cover a range
of topics including map design, Artificial Intelligence, and UX research methodology.

View the full listing here.


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February 2024: New Projects pages added

My Showcase page is reorganised with a new Projects section to co-ordinate highlights of my research, design, and teaching.


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31st January 2022: February 2022 newsletter uploaded

This is the 100th and final edition

Map of the Month goes back to first principles for New York City


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13th October 2021: Limited Edition Print announced

In Circles Round the Essex Sunshine Coast is now available,
limited to 120 signed copies, recommended A2 size (but
all others available). Order copies direct here.


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1st October 2021: Limited Edition Print announced

Four Seasons on the Essex Sunshine Coast is now available, limited to 120 signed copies, in three sizes. Download the flyer here and order copies direct here.


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March 2021: University Teaching updates

PS908 Research Methods & Statistics
Lectures for academic year 2020-2021 available online

PS118 Applied Psychology
Lectures for academic year 2020-2021 available online

PS416 Personality & Individual Differences
Lectures for academic year 2020-2021 available online

PS452 Intelligent Behavior
Lectures for academic year 2019-2020 available online

PS499 Transit Maps: Past, Present & Future
Lectures from academic year 2018-2019 available online


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25th May 2020: Document added to Academic Works page

A Survey on Transit Map Layout from Design, Machine, and Human Perspectives
A multidisciplinary survey of the state of the art of transit map research

Download the manuscript from survey.schematicmapping.org


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8th February 2020: New Public Lectures added

Airline Maps: A Century of art and design

The story of 20th Century civil aviation,
advertising, and design told by maps

The Decade of Diagrams

Modernism meets maps worldwide in the 1930s


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16th December 2019: New book published

Tube Map Travels: Imitations, adaptations and explorations worldwide

A 96 page full colour exploration of the twilight world of
unofficial Underground maps


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29th October 2019: New book published

Airline Maps: A century of art and design

A 144 page full colour celebration of a century of astonishing
airline cartography, USA/UK simultaneous release


Most recent web pages update: 1st March 2024