Be useful to have a way to submit bugs. Linking "Kentish Town" and "Kentish Town West" stations as an interchange is a non-starter.
A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
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Re: A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
#12You cant redesign the tube map; its embedded in many minds and most people know it as the logical map of London. Even the London Connections map is based on it.
The tube map has been redesigned dozens of times. Here's a good book on the history of the map: http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Becks-Underground-Map-History/dp/18...
Yes I know but they are far from radical redesigns in the last 20-30 years. I have a 1985 London Connections map (from my first tube journey!) and it's virtually no different to the current one. Just additions and a couple of removals of rail routes and Heathrow, Jubillee extension and DLR etc.
Re: A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
#13Awesome. Thinking about it, the tube map is actually something that might benefit from some crowd sourcing. There are so many intricacies that can be taken into account (how long walks are between interchanges etc.), connections that are better made by walking etc.
I would be more interested in attempting to track actual people moving about London, and extrapolating from there; self-reported short-cuts are all well and good, but actual behaviour overtime, to route around congestion, is much more interesting
Re: A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
#14"more useful" That is certainly up debate. The reason why the diagrammatic layout was (and is) highly praised by the public is because of its readibility. People only look at 2 locations: their current one and their destination. They will eventually look at possible routes and keep track of a couple of intersections. But everything in between remains unnoticed. It's like believing that users look at every pixel of yo…
The original maps used to look something similar to this, then that electrical engineer created the current version like an electrical circuit diagram. I think the current one is far more readable...
Re: A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
#15Awesome. Thinking about it, the tube map is actually something that might benefit from some crowd sourcing. There are so many intricacies that can be taken into account (how long walks are between interchanges etc.), connections that are better made by walking etc.
This app has some nice features like shortcuts in stations and best place to get off the train:
http://www.stationmasterapp.com/features.html
Not used it as no Android version :(
Re: A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
#16A direct link to the map SVG here - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Sameboat... Unlike in the official version, different branches of the London Overground Network are now in different colours, although annoyingly the original east london line is nither called that nor orange. The Northern Line is also split into the the Northern line and the Edgeware Line Some handy interchanges are highlighted a…
The SVG is superb, you can select different lines and they're highlighted.
Re: A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
#17Be useful to have a way to submit bugs. Linking "Kentish Town" and "Kentish Town West" stations as an interchange is a non-starter.
Yup, they must be about a mile apart.
Re: A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
#18Be useful to have a way to submit bugs. Linking "Kentish Town" and "Kentish Town West" stations as an interchange is a non-starter.
Not to mention I spent five frustrated minutes looking for the Charing Cross branch of the damn black line, only to realize later that it's coloured green.
Re: A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
#19A direct link to the map SVG here - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Sameboat... Unlike in the official version, different branches of the London Overground Network are now in different colours, although annoyingly the original east london line is nither called that nor orange. The Northern Line is also split into the the Northern line and the Edgeware Line Some handy interchanges are highlighted a…
With the Northern Line being split, though, it isn't clear that I can take a single train from High Barnet to Charing Cross, or from Edgware to Bank.
Re: A Tube map of the London Underground that's more useful than the 'official' one
#20Be useful to have a way to submit bugs. Linking "Kentish Town" and "Kentish Town West" stations as an interchange is a non-starter.
Not to mention I spent five frustrated minutes looking for the Charing Cross branch of the damn black line, only to realize later that it's coloured green.
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