Utopian London

Today's #30DayMapChallenge is Utopia.There have been lots of pixel-art maps appearing online recently. I covered several of these projects in my recent Pixelate the World post. For today's challenge I thought it might be interesting to create a pixelated map of London – not as it is, but as it might look in an ideal world.Greater London covers approximately 1,591 square kilometres. If each zoomed-in map tile covers roughly 0.15 square kilometres, I would need in the region of 10,600 images to create enough tiles to cover the entire capital. That's a few too many for a simple map challenge, so I decided to create a much smaller map - using just one tile - of Trafalgar Square.My Utopian London map reimagines Trafalgar Square as a greener, more cycle-friendly urban landscape. To create the map I started by feeding an aerial image of Trafalgar Square into Gemini and asking it to transform the scene into pixel art. I also asked it to grass over the roads, plant more trees and introduce…

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