Mapping Sherlock's London

The moving painting Mr Holmes, starring Ian McKellen every bit Sherlock Holmes, opens inwards the Great Britain today. To teach y'all inwards the mood for the cinema why non explore this map of Sherlock's London. The map features a number of locations which characteristic inwards the master copy novels past times Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The map of London used inwards Sherlock's London was originally created for a London Museum exhibition nigh Sherlock Holmes. The museum map includes a number of routes (marked inwards red) showing journeys taken past times Holmes as well as Watson inwards iii of Doyle's master copy stories.

It's a flake of shame that these routes haven't been made a footling to a greater extent than interactive inwards this online version of the map (but I gauge the routes get got nil to produce alongside the movie).

Via: Visualoop


If Sherlock's London had wanted about clues nigh how to map about of these journeys on a map as well as therefore they could get got checked out this sometime Hack Your Maps tutorial on H5N1 List Apart. The H5N1 List Apart article is a overnice tutorial on about of the pattern issues facing developers when creating interactive maps for the web.

The map that the tutorial walks y'all through shows the locations of about of the most of import scenes inwards the Sherlock Holmes storey The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans. The map includes about gorgeous map markers, styled map tiles as well as an innovative scrolling navigation device. In fact it is a much nicer map than Sherlock's London.