Markonthemaps (Mark Ovenden)
@markonthemaps.bsky.social
🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌 and ‘in transit’ from X as @markovenden.
« GBNews » (huge misnomer) have justified OFCOM regulation and investigation many times before, now nearly 50,000 have signed this petition - push it to 100,000! 38d.gs/trump_gbnews...
OFCOM: INVESTIGATE GB NEWS’ SHOCKING TRUMP INTERVIEW
GB News’ recent Trump interview was outrageous - completely biased and full of lies. And GB News didn't challenge him ONCE. Ofcom MUST investigate them for breaching its rules. Sign now if you agree.
38d.gs
December 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
« GBNews » (huge misnomer) have justified OFCOM regulation and investigation many times before, now nearly 50,000 have signed this petition - push it to 100,000! 38d.gs/trump_gbnews...
Just so anyone considering Wes Streeting knows:
This is Jon Lonsdale, cofounder of Palantir.👇
That’s the Palantir whose software Wes and NHS England are wanting to roll out to manage our health records.
We’re putting our health records in the hands of a man who would bring back public hangings.
That’s the Palantir whose software Wes and NHS England are wanting to roll out to manage our health records.
We’re putting our health records in the hands of a man who would bring back public hangings.
December 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Just so anyone considering Wes Streeting knows:
We're talking about our industrial past from #BritishRailwaysEngineeringLtd (BREL) to #SwanageRailway, football during WW1 to a nuclear spaceship! Richard Marks is the man who knows. Listen here: www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We're talking about our industrial past from #BritishRailwaysEngineeringLtd (BREL) to #SwanageRailway, football during WW1 to a nuclear spaceship! Richard Marks is the man who knows. Listen here: www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...
#BBCVerify: please explain.
Left: #BBCNews lead, 2018.
Right: #Guardian top story today
Middle: BBC News today.
So Holocaust survivors view considered so relevant then, not even mentioned today. Instead Fürage’s twisted “excuse” blaming BBC for airing comedy about India (not anti-semitism). Why?
Left: #BBCNews lead, 2018.
Right: #Guardian top story today
Middle: BBC News today.
So Holocaust survivors view considered so relevant then, not even mentioned today. Instead Fürage’s twisted “excuse” blaming BBC for airing comedy about India (not anti-semitism). Why?
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
#BBCVerify: please explain.
Left: #BBCNews lead, 2018.
Right: #Guardian top story today
Middle: BBC News today.
So Holocaust survivors view considered so relevant then, not even mentioned today. Instead Fürage’s twisted “excuse” blaming BBC for airing comedy about India (not anti-semitism). Why?
Left: #BBCNews lead, 2018.
Right: #Guardian top story today
Middle: BBC News today.
So Holocaust survivors view considered so relevant then, not even mentioned today. Instead Fürage’s twisted “excuse” blaming BBC for airing comedy about India (not anti-semitism). Why?
Finally an article on this scourge of British & European roads: the Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicle. Sadly not enough on just how dangerous and polluting they are but a good start in the backlash against them I guess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Carspreading’ is on the rise - not everyone is happy
In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Finally an article on this scourge of British & European roads: the Stupendously Unnecessary Vehicle. Sadly not enough on just how dangerous and polluting they are but a good start in the backlash against them I guess. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Historian friends/followers: do you speak of past events in the present tense? Help me out here please: how does it help the listener/reader to know when the event you are talking about is happening, now or previously? Apologies in advance if a daft question, because I just don’t really get it.
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Historian friends/followers: do you speak of past events in the present tense? Help me out here please: how does it help the listener/reader to know when the event you are talking about is happening, now or previously? Apologies in advance if a daft question, because I just don’t really get it.
@ledbydonkeys.org dunno if you wonderful lot were responsible for this poster spotted apparently in south london before sadly quickly removed…?
Of course it would be terrible if we were to spread it on social media!
Of course it would be terrible if we were to spread it on social media!
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
@ledbydonkeys.org dunno if you wonderful lot were responsible for this poster spotted apparently in south london before sadly quickly removed…?
Of course it would be terrible if we were to spread it on social media!
Of course it would be terrible if we were to spread it on social media!
I name this place « Church Cross »
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I name this place « Church Cross »
Flypost
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Flypost
More news like this please!
Dan Price became widely known for changing how his company treated its workers. As CEO of Gravity Payments, he reduced his own salary from 1.1 million dollars to seventy thousand dollars so that every employee could earn the same amount.
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
More news like this please!
How important in art in #transit stations? Today's CATCH-cast guest Andrew Mead explains how art is commissioned and why good architecture is a crucial part of the public transport journey. www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
How important in art in #transit stations? Today's CATCH-cast guest Andrew Mead explains how art is commissioned and why good architecture is a crucial part of the public transport journey. www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...
The new scalable British #NationalRail maps are live from today. Very clever idea in many ways, you zoom in or out for more or less detail. Have a play #rail, @transitmap.net and #map fans! railmap.nationalrail.co.uk#/mapview
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The new scalable British #NationalRail maps are live from today. Very clever idea in many ways, you zoom in or out for more or less detail. Have a play #rail, @transitmap.net and #map fans! railmap.nationalrail.co.uk#/mapview
Can we now have some serious EU action taken against #homophobia in #Poland, #Hungary etc please? Not just words: state prejudice must end now.
“The EU’s highest court has ruled that same-sex marriages must be respected throughout the bloc and rebuked Poland for refusing to recognise a marriage between two of its citizens that took place in Germany.”
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Some welcome news today. 🇪🇺🏳️🌈
EU court rules entire bloc must respect same-sex marriages in rebuke to Poland
Couple who married in Germany had their right to a ‘normal family life’ impeded, court of justice finds
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Can we now have some serious EU action taken against #homophobia in #Poland, #Hungary etc please? Not just words: state prejudice must end now.
Making #public #transport free seems sensible in at least some cases. Let’s re-examine this. Seems to have worked wonders in a US city!
If Iowa City can do it, so can other cities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Making #public #transport free seems sensible in at least some cases. Let’s re-examine this. Seems to have worked wonders in a US city!
What Mike says:
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
What Mike says:
There is still hope we can turn this around but it requires bold action, not climate-change deniers like #ReFuk.
Our 2025 State of the Climate Report was just published in BioScience by scientists from around the world including @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social This video (2 minutes) shows the key highlights: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
There is still hope we can turn this around but it requires bold action, not climate-change deniers like #ReFuk.
What do you think of this: a new urban environment built mainly of wood, linked by #trams: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How ambitious ‘forest city’ plan for England could become a reality
Cross-party coalition behind proposals hope eco-friendly scheme for million people could begin before end of decade
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
What do you think of this: a new urban environment built mainly of wood, linked by #trams: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This looks like a good petition to achieve sensible things. 38d.gs/lmux
Sign the petition: End the tax break for big pharma like GlaxoSmithKline at the Autumn budget
While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax break...
38d.gs
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This looks like a good petition to achieve sensible things. 38d.gs/lmux
Reporting on tonight’s show from the #TransitMappingSymposium in #HongKong. Impressed by the range of young, enthusiastic & talented designers from around the world…(& some of their guérilla tactics to improve design & #wayfinding)! Check it out now: www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reporting on tonight’s show from the #TransitMappingSymposium in #HongKong. Impressed by the range of young, enthusiastic & talented designers from around the world…(& some of their guérilla tactics to improve design & #wayfinding)! Check it out now: www.vectisradio.com/podcast/catc...
Once again: any friends or family toying with ReFuk need to see this video. These jokers will destroy Britain. Watch and learn from the idiocy of Trump: allow these people to run things and it’s the road to hell.
Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
By Nafeez Ahmed
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
By Nafeez Ahmed
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Once again: any friends or family toying with ReFuk need to see this video. These jokers will destroy Britain. Watch and learn from the idiocy of Trump: allow these people to run things and it’s the road to hell.
Whenever you hear anyone spouting racism, and spreading misinformation: this what they are desperately trying to deflect attention from. The billionaires are the real problem.
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Whenever you hear anyone spouting racism, and spreading misinformation: this what they are desperately trying to deflect attention from. The billionaires are the real problem.
#typography lovers: some more #FascinatingFontFacts from my recent #HongKong visit. Not only are the double-decker #trams unique (I think) outside #Blackpool and #Alexandria, but check out the vehicle number typeface: a fair representation of #London’s #Johnston lettering. Handpainted too it seems.
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#typography lovers: some more #FascinatingFontFacts from my recent #HongKong visit. Not only are the double-decker #trams unique (I think) outside #Blackpool and #Alexandria, but check out the vehicle number typeface: a fair representation of #London’s #Johnston lettering. Handpainted too it seems.
Lovely to see that most road signage in #HongKong uses the #TransportMedium #typeface for English language directions. Pictograms also from the 1960s hand of #MargaretCalvert. Plus they drive on the left which makes border crossings interesting!
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lovely to see that most road signage in #HongKong uses the #TransportMedium #typeface for English language directions. Pictograms also from the 1960s hand of #MargaretCalvert. Plus they drive on the left which makes border crossings interesting!
I just signed the petition to to demand the UK Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services like transport and housing. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I just signed the petition to to demand the UK Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services like transport and housing. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...