Find yourself in London

The London Photomat

All of London is at your feet in City Hall's Visitor Centre on the lower ground floor, where the London Photomat is installed. The London Photomat shows an aerial view of the whole of Greater London, at a detail precise enough to pinpoint individual houses and buildings.

In April 2008 a new edition of the Photomat was installed. The image was created by stitching together hundreds of individual photographs taken with a 90 megapixel camera from a light aircraft flying at an altitude of 6000 feet (1850 metres) above London. The majority of the photographs were taken during the summer of 2006 and 2007.

The images are loaded into specialist software and additional information, such as the London Assembly constituency boundaries and the London 2012 Olympic Park, is drawn on top.

Visitors to City Hall are invited to step onto the map and find where they live or work, or pick out some of London's most famous landmarks from above. (From time to time, exhibitions in the Visitor Centre may cover parts of the map.)

Credits

The aerial photography for Greater London was provided by The GeoInformation Group Cities Revealed aerial photography copyright The GeoInformation Group 2008.

Facts about London

When you look at London under your feet, consider some of the following facts:

• Although we think of London as a city full of buildings and roads, well over half of it is green spaces or water. See the Biodiversity Strategy for more information on London's plant and animal life.
• London's population is growing rapidly. The population is forecast to increase by 700,00 by 2016, equivalent to adding a city the size of Leeds. The London Plan recommends that higher density housing needs to be built, and that the priority for development should be brownfield sites.

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