Back in July, I posted a blog post about an image I made called London Lights, which used the welovelocal database to map all the businesses in London to a point on a map. Well, now that we’ve gone nationwide, I have even more data to play with!

So this is the second in the series, if you include the July one. This doesn’t really have a name at the moment, so if someone wants to christen it, let me know in the comments!

This is a typographical map of the UK, using the structure of welovelocal and the amount of businesses in that area. The more businesses in an area, the larger and brighter the text. The position of the text is based on the geographical position.

Some towns maybe not be as bright as you expect (for example, Manchester), as they are broken down in subtowns (e.g. Oldham, Bury, etc). It’ll make more sense when you view it.

View UK Word Map (2000×3000px)