#stephen walter

Shoreditch and London by Stephen Walter 

Archival digital inkjet print and pearlised screenprinting

Hello all, bit of a long time since the last post - sorry about that! Here’s something new, though: a map!

It combines the book-specific marker sets created by Ben Aaronovitch, and an overlay of Stephen Walter’s lovely “Rivers of London” illustration which has been georeferenced to sit on top of Google maps.

You can use the toggle to adjust the transparency on the image and see where the rivers are relative to the road layout. And you can turn the marker layers off and on individually, too.

EDIT 9/2/15: Taken offline for now (for the reasons below). Hope anyone who wanted a look had the chance! And let me know if you want more info on the "how to" side of things.

Okay, so I did a Thing with Stephen Walter's new map of the Rivers of London. I georeferenced it and created a scalable, transparent overlay for Google Maps, so you can zoom about and change transparency (with the volume slider-like thingy, top right) and see how the rivers (particularly the hidden ones!) relate to modern day London.

I've uploaded it so that people can have a look, but I won't leave it up for very long because I'd really want to get permission from the artist. This was mostly to create something I could play about with offline - if it were to go up "properly", I'd create additional layers or pins with points of interest from the books (I think I might have seen something similar on BA's blog).

Ultimately, it could form part of a great splash page for a site with info tagged to the map - you can even geotag wordpress posts and generate pins on the map using the metadata, although it requires a bit of hacking of the php.

But yes, if you're curious, have a look - I'll leave it up over the weekend.

And if you wanted to recreate it yourself, you'll need: