Summary

The City of London has been called “The Global Capital for Arts and Culture.” In recent years there has been a decline in cultural spaces, especially LGBTQ+ spaces. In order to determine how to expand and protect the city’s cultural areas the City of London has created a wide database or different types of artistic spaces through London’s new Cultural Infrastructure Plan. An extensive library of these databases has been published by the Greater London Authority and can be found here. This map of music venues across London is just a small subset from the available information.

venues <- read.csv("https://query.data.world/s/j2bp466undxzml6qwm7aauubqup5so", header=TRUE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE);

Map of London Music Venues

library(leaflet)

music_icon <- makeIcon(
    iconUrl = "https://www.musicshelter.info/wp-content/uploads/Pride-MusicNote.png",
    iconWidth = 40*215/230, iconHeight = 40,
    iconAnchorX = 40*215/230/2, iconAnchorY = 16)

venue_map <- leaflet(data = venues) %>%
    addTiles() %>% 
    addMarkers(icon = music_icon, clusterOptions = markerClusterOptions(), popup = ~as.character(name))

venue_map