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This map was submitted to us by LondonTown, and this description comes from their site:

What makes the Olympics in London so different from any Olympics before is its use of the whole city throughout the Games. No spectators in central London will ever be more than 30 minutes away from an Olympic venue, with some of the capital’s most iconic landmarks acting as a backdrop for the greatest show on earth. Most events will take place at the ground-breaking 2.5sq km Olympic Park in Stratford, a mere seven minutes away from the city centre by Olympic Javelin train. Other events will be scattered around in all directions at key venues a short journey from the center of town. 9.6 million tickets have been issued for the Olympics but the major ticket will be London itself, with the capital set to come alive throughout the summer.

This detailed map is really intriguing and offers a great overview of how each venue across the city will be used in the Games. Having the Tube map in addition will be really instrumental for lots of travelers hoping to navigate between events.

The thing with this graphic is that it is solely a map. There are opportunities to introduce infographic elements like data viz (number of seats per venue, tonnes of sand at Horse Guards Parade, etc.) but mainly due to space constraints and the geographic focus, these elements weren’t enacted.

As a map I give this an A–it’s fantastic, easy to understand and really useful. But I can’t really grade it as an infographic since there is no data visualization.

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<div align="center"><a href="http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-subwayscience0309/2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://editorial.designtaxi.com/news-subwayscience0309/2.jpg" alt="the history of science" height="411px" width="665px"/></a><br />Source: <a href="http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Crispian Jago </a><br />View Other <a href="http://www.submitinfographics.com" target="_blank">Infographics</a></div> <p>

Many infographics have used the concept of a subway to illustrate their data, and this new entry from Crispian Jago is a very complex subway style infographic. The thing that makes most infographics useful, is that they cleanly and concisely layout the data in a way that is easy to digest. This infographic (London Underground map) above details the history of science, and starts in the center during the 16th century, with pre-modern science figures like Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Galileo Galilei. Then the subway tracks go into the 17th century and call out scientists like Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, and Daniel Fahrenheit. The 18th century has famous scientists such as Anders Celsius, Benjamin Franklin, and Michael Faraday. In the 19th century things really seem to pick up, as a number of great scientists are listed like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Charles Darwin, and Gregor Mendel. Moving into the 20th century, you find a number of notable scientists like Carl Sagan, Tim Berners Lee (see the History of E-Commerce), Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer, and Jonas Salk.

While this infographic can be educational, it is very difficult to take in, without seeing it blown up and printed out as a poster. The massive size forces you to zoom in and look at the subway map for the history of science, in bits and pieces. The flow of the data goes in a big spiral, so it is tough to go around in circles to try and soak in all of the data and see the relationships between scientists.