{"id":310,"date":"2011-04-19T08:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T06:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2011-04-19T08:19:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T06:19:55","slug":"london-tube-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/04\/london-tube-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"London Tube Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamiewieck.com\/visual-essays\/is-harry-becks-london-underground-map-a-perfect-design\/\">Much<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomwire.com\/how-to-ruin-a-design-classic\">has<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/diagrams.org\/fig-pages\/f00022.html\">been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patricktaylor.com\/1933-underground-map\">talked<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.ntlworld.com\/clivebillson\/tube\/tube.html\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/alex4d.wordpress.com\/londons-tube-map\/\">theorised<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/privatewww.essex.ac.uk\/~mjr\/underground\/information_pollution\/ip.html\">about<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oskarlin.com\/2005\/11\/29\/time-travel\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/travelnews\/6219582\/The-best-London-Underground-Tube-map-pastiches.html\">much<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/rodcorp.typepad.com\/rodcorp\/2003\/10\/london_tube_map.html\">has<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/traintimes.org.uk\/map\/tube\/\">been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.univie.ac.at\/horst.prillinger\/metro\/m\/londonundergroundmapgerman.html\">done<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tom-carden.co.uk\/p5\/tube_map_travel_times\/applet\/\">to<\/a>,\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/gettingaround\/1106.aspx\">London\u00a0Tube Map<\/a>, the epitome of the intersection of information design and abstract network cartography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourthway.co.uk\/tfl.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-313\" title=\"Harry Beck's Tube Map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/london_underground_map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/london_underground_map.png 752w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/london_underground_map-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/london_underground_map-624x437.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From fourthway comes now a handy tool to draw some interesting comparisons: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourthway.co.uk\/tfl.html\">The Real Underground<\/a> allows you to morph the current London Underground Map into the 1933 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Harry Beck\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Beck\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Harry Beck<\/a> design and into the geographically accurate configuration. Unfortunately, at present it does so only for an excerpt of the map. Still, the comparison is quite interesting. To me as non-Londoner it was surprising to see how much the two underground maps differ, but also how generalised in fact the geographic situation is.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2011\/04\/the_real_london_underground.html\">information asthetics<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been talked and theorised about, and much has been done to,\u00a0the London\u00a0Tube Map, the epitome of the intersection of information design and abstract network cartography. From fourthway comes now a handy tool to draw some interesting comparisons: The Real Underground allows you to morph the current London Underground Map into the 1933 Harry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/04\/london-tube-maps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">London Tube Maps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[23,52,76,124],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note","tag-cartography","tag-geo","tag-network","tag-visual"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-50","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}