There are far cleaner geographic tube maps than that, and if you want to have any idea of where you are in London the geographic tube map is the one to use. The

There are far cleaner geographic tube maps than that, and if you want to have any idea of where you are in London the geographic tube map is the one to use. The designed map is very clean and clever but eliminates all information except the list of stations per line, which is no use when you want to relate those stations to places where time and distance matter. You can get out at station A, walk to your final destination only to find a closer station that the map gives no indication of. It's simplistic to the point of misleading. Some people have brought out maps indicating walking distance between stations in an attempt to fix a fundamentally unsuitable map. Tinkering. The complete lack of character in a straight line also makes locations harder to remember - I need to change on the straight line with a station called arbitrary name vs I need to change at the kinky curve. The current map is great, but it should hang in a museum.