Map of london please help!!?

Question

does anyone know where i can find an extremely detailed map of central london that has all the building footprints drawn onto it aswell

i have the ordenance survey explorer versions of london but i want a bigger map that shows more detail than them

ive been to stanfords in covent garden and there wasnt anything there.

Answer 1

You can certainly find what you're looking for online. The Compass site (run by the City of London) has interactive, searchable maps that you can zoom into, down to the footprint of a single buildings. That covers the official City -- so it won't help if you want mapping of the West End, for example.

Here's the link to the access page: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporati...

To see the scale of map including building footprints, look here, on the Compass "help" page (scroll down the page): http://www.planning.cityoflondon.gov.uk/...

The information available here is fantastic: everything from parking availability to traffic routing.

If you still want a single map (on paper) of the whole of central London, the problem you face is simple size.

The OS Explorer series is 1:25,000. The largest-scale paper map of central London available to the ordinary public is the Geographers A-Z super-scale London map. That gives nine inches to the mile (1:7,040), which is pretty amazing mapping but still doesn't bring you down to individual buildings. See the link here for a sample (ironically, from Stanfords' site) http://www.stanfords.co.uk/stock/super-s...

If it's a particular street or site you're after, you could go through the Land Registry and buy a Title Plan like this one: http://www.landregisteronline.gov.uk/lro...

You can do this via the Land Registry's Aerial Land Locator:  http://www.landregisteronline.gov.uk/lro...  -- you'll need the address of the place you're interested in. Title Plans cost £3 each.

Hope that's a help.

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Answer 2

The Transport for London shop at Covent Garden also has a good selection of maps of London (some of them might be a bit old but probably not much has changed)

Answer 3

MULTIMAP :D

Answer 4

Repost this question in another section (like geography). This is a travel section. People are going to keep giving you dumb ideas.