Metro maps are optimized for finding your way from one metro station to another. But what I really want is to go from one physical location to another, and that

Metro maps are optimized for finding your way from one metro station to another. But what I really want is to go from one physical location to another, and that is made more difficult because those distorted metro maps don't map very well to the physical layout of the area. It's often difficult to see how the metro stations correspond to physical locations, and therefore not straightforward to find out the best total route (i.e. including walking from starting point to metro station, metro, walk from metro to destination, possibly other transportation options). Edit: Tom Scott has a video (somewhat theatrically titled "Lies on the London Underground") that highlights some peculiarities of the London Underground, some of which are (partly) caused by the non-geographic nature of the maps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrHRQSm6LIs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrHRQSm6LIs