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A History of the London Tube Maps
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoShades of Tufte and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. The outstanding change between 1932 and 1933 was the discarding of the irrelevant exact layout of the lines, and using instead the simplest possible topological layout. By no longer showing the physical distances between stations, or the exact weaving in and out of the lines, Harry Beck's layout is the basis of most modern underground railway maps. For the time it was an astonishing leap of representation, regarded with great suspicion. Before: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clivebillson/tube/tube.html#1932 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clivebillson/tube/tube.html#193... After: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clivebillson/tube/tube.html#1933 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clivebillson/tube/tube.html#193...
- Luc 17y agoAs much as I love the qualities of the new map, the old one DOES convey useful extra information, especially now we've become sufficiently acquainted with the modern one. I would like to see an updated old-style map, it would be a nice (retrograde) evolution.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoThe "SnapMap" of London shows the actual routes of the lines and the locations of the stations on a simplistic, but accurate enough, map of London. I use mine all the time.
- bhrgunatha 17y agoerrr... Mornington Crescent.
- Luc 17y agoThanks for the tip, not quite what I had in mind but looks pretty useful.
- jrnkntl 17y agoWhy are the links the same color as the text and not even underlined? What if all the tubes had the same color on his map?