London A-Z Street Atlas

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The index section lists streets, embassies, legations, commonwealth representatives and hospitals covered by this atlas.The large-scale street map of Central London – at a scale of 5.75 inches to 1 mile – cover Regent’s Park and Shoreditch, Chelsea and Vauxhall, Hyde Park and Bermondsey. Holborn Viaduct station seems to be just as noteworthy as St Paul’s Cathedral. And there are a lot of changes coming to the South Bank that this map doesn’t know about yet.

These maps are a digital copy of the famous A-Z Street Maps of London with other UK cities available soon. A street renaming scheme started in London in the 1850s and reached its conclusion in 1939. So it’s no surprise to the find a large section included in the book on the London County Council street name changes. More Information But, when finished, no-one wanted it. The map trade was unwilling to be disturbed and publishers rejected the maps. So Pearsall founded the Geographers’ Map Company to print them herself, and began selling them in 1936. So the book I have in my hand is a replica of the first London A-Z. It contains the maps which Mrs Pearsall first published including bus, trolleybus and tram routes, plus the streets of London as they were just before the World War II.I moved a lot when I first came to London (25 times in 5 years) so I really got to know the A-Z. In the days before Google maps and mobile phones, the book was an essential item in any Londoner’s bag. The main brands of smartphone come with their own free mapping and location apps, most commonly powered by Google, Microsoft (Bing), Nokia (Here), and most recently Apple. The apps provide a global mapping database that covers the full range of scales from a world map down to the neighbourhood level. They provide location searches and multiple mapping layers, such as road mapping and aerial photography. Higher functionality can include turn-by-turn routing and public transport info. The accuracy of the mapping and the app functionality varies between the apps mentioned above, and within each app it commonly varies by country. Comparison of A-Z app and iOS A-Z London apps At around the age of 29, Pearsall directed some draughtsmen to begin drawing up this new type of street map while she compiled much of the information necessary to update the maps. It’s sais she walked the streets of London for up to 18 hours a day hand plotting the street alignment and compiling ancillary information including house numbers along principal thoroughfares. I was reminded the Queen wasn’t the Queen when this book was published. And if you wanted to visit the Royal Stables you had to write for permission. Now, The Royal Mews is open to all.

The map installs completely on the device so that it is available instantly anywhere and with no internet connection.. In South Kensington, while the Natural History Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum are noted the Science Museum is not. It was there at the time but was clearly not considered as important. Once the information is in Sage Pay's systems, all sensitive data is secured using the same internationally recognised 256-bit encryption standards used by, among others, the US Government. The encryption keys are held on state-of-the-art, tamper proof systems in the same family as those used to secure VeriSign's Global Root certificate, making them all but impossible to extract. The data we hold is extremely secure and we are regularly audited by the banks and banking authorities to ensure it remains so.Geographers’ Map Company was founded in 1936 by Phyllis Pearsall MBE (1906-1996) who, encouraged by her father Alexander Gross, took on the ambitious task of publishing up-to-date street mapping of London.

In one scheme, the letters JIHGFEDCBA represent the digits 1 to 9 and 0, so that HFD would be 357, indicating a publication date of March 1957. This seems to have been used on all the company's folding maps, and possibly also those in book form.

There’s no DLR or The O2. And the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has clearly changed beyond recognition. Information about places of interest, museums and art galleries for both central and outer London, including a star rating system to highlight recommended visitor attractions. in 1972, the company name was changed from Geographers' Map Company to Geographers' A–Z Map Company. In addition to a map of the London Underground (central area), a West End Theatres map and a West End Cinemas map are also featured within this atlas.