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	Hotels and Travel, maps and travel directions - powered by Multimap
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		In particular, the red circle may indicate the centre of the area covered by the post code selected, rather than the precise location of an address.
	www.multimap.com /hotels (788 words)

	Black and white Photography » London Tube Map
		I’ve taken Simon Clarke’s geographically accurate map and overlaid it onto a NASA satellite image of London.
		More useful is a map showing the walk lines between stations, and the way out map which indicates the most appropriate carriage to be in for speedy interchanges.
		For you Tube map freaks: R. Gardiner has taken a geographically accurate map of the London Underground and superimposed it on a satellite image of the city.
	www.nyclondon.com /blog/archives/2004/08/07/london_tube_map.blog (1394 words)

	A History of the London Tube Maps
		Referring to the underground as the "tube" had been used in a number of earlier underground maps but the picture on the front cover of this map, sponsored by the London newspaper "Evening News", coveys the true concept of why it was known as the tube.
		Despite the economies, the map still appears to be directed towards the public travelling for pleasure, as on the rear of the map there are some quaint and intriguing pictures of sights around London along with details of admission fees and opening hours.
		Maps produced in the earlier years of the war were subjected to certain economies in the way of paper quality and style.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /clivebillson/tube/tube.html (6184 words)

	London Tube Maps
		The Tube Map with Walklines tries to show the distance between stations in case you decide to walk it rather than catch a tube.
		The Transport for London Real-time Tube Map attempts to show disruptions in lines in their usual tube color, disrupted stations are shown in red and the others are faded; if you click on a disrupted line or station, you get more information.
		The London Bloggers Tube Map is a "directory of weblogs written by people who live or work in london, organised by the rather iconic London Tube map (and also the central london suburban rail network, docklands light railway and croydon tramlink)".
	www.kayodeok.co.uk /weblog/200311/london_tube_maps.html (256 words)

	London Tube Map \| Multimap.com
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		View an aerial photo of the map area.
		Reproduction of this map and related information is not permitted without prior written consent.
	www.multimap.com /map/tube.cgi?client=public&tsize=500&tmap=to (42 words)

	Travel Time Tube Map (Built with Processing)
		Shortest paths are used to place the other stations - radius is proportional to time to travel, and angle should be correct for as-the-crow-flies direction on a map.
		Inspired by Oskar Karlin's reworking of the tube map around the time to travel from Elephant and Castle, and Rod McLaren's subsequent sketch 10 Minutes tube travel from Oxford Circus.
		Yes, there are similar maps in existence elsewhere - you might have heard the terms anamorphosis, isochrone or isochronic map used to describe them.
	www.tom-carden.co.uk /p5/tube_map_travel_times/applet (332 words)

	London Underground Map, Tube stations & lines - where to find the london tube map
		A good addition to this map is one that shows where the walkways between tube stations are.
		You'll meet a guy who listens to tube trains from the road above with a large tube, the mad yellow Frog Buses, one minute they are on the road, the next in the river and a whole series of walks exploring the weird and wacky side of London.
		If you would like to see lots more illustrations of how the map has changed from 1906 to the present day, there is an excellent web page here which charts the geographical history of the Tube map.
	solo2.abac.com /themole/maps.html (5709 words)

	Tube map - Wikinfo
		The Tube map is the commonly-used name for the schematic diagram used to represent the lines and stations of the London Underground.
		The map was designed in 1931 by London Transport employee Harry Beck, who realised that, because the railway ran mostly underground, the actual physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only the topology of the railway mattered.
		The map was taken out of his hands towards the end of his career.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Tube_map (1615 words)

	Mapper's delight: the London Underground diagrams
		Geographical Tube maps: the map is not the territory
		Underground London, including 'lost' Tube stations, is represented in a map at the bottom of an article from Heritage Magazine, while a sideshift in transport generates a map of motorways in the London area or the UK (the latter by Gerald Higgins).
		Dave Linton's South London Tube Map [mirror] is a labour of love mapping the 'Overground Network' of heavy rail on to the Tube diagram.
	owen.massey.net /tubemaps.html (1204 words)

	rodcorp: London Tube Map with Walklines: sometimes it's quicker to walk
		One of the very few weaknesses of the standard tube map is that its distortion of geography (a very successful attempt to present the different stations and lines more clearly) sometimes means that it's not clear when the tube trip is unnecessary.
		tube map with 500m walklines dotted in (warning: it's a large 429k gif file, pdf to follow possibly.
		The original tube map used is here (385k gif), and is obviously copyright Transport For London.
	rodcorp.typepad.com /rodcorp/2003/10/london_tube_map.html (2144 words)

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		A special version of the London underground map is available called the "Tube access guide", which can help people in a wheelchair to plan a Tube journey avoiding stairs and escalators.
		The new stock was called 1936 Tube Stock and was the prototype for over 1100 cars of 1938 Tube Stock.
		The unfortunate side effect of the painting policy has been that the cars show dirt more readily and tube cars, in particular, appear to suffer from a body skin static problem, causing dust to adhere to the paint surface.
	www.lycos.com /info/london-underground--tube-map.html (373 words)

	Geofftech - Tube - Silly Tube Maps
		There is the tube map as you've grown to know and love it, and there are spins offs - many spins off, that I've come across and collected, and are all nicely here for you in one place.
		This map was made by Simon Clarke, who has his own website with other tube maps at www.simonclarke.org/lul/ and I believe that an updated version of the geographical map is being worked upon.
		An artist called Simon Patterson was probably the first person to bastardise the tube map as we know and love it, when he reworked the map calling it 'The Great Bear'.
	www.phoenixproductions.org.uk /SillyTubeMaps/sillytube.html (1335 words)

	ipedia.com: Tube map Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The map was designed in 1931 by London Transport employee Harry Beck, who realised that, because the railway ran mostly underground, the actual physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only the topology of the railway mattered.
		The map was taken out of his hands towards the end of his career.
		The London Tube Map Archive has a collection of Tube maps, showing the growth of the system and the changes in the style of the Underground map
	www.ipedia.com /tube_map.html (568 words)

	Art 2003-2006: Tube Map with Walklines
		This is a slightly altered map showing which stations are an arbitrary and as-the-crow-flies 500 metres apart from each other.
		It doesn't look great yet, and definitely reduces the readability of the standard tube map at the moment, which isn't a good thing.
		the same with the tube map faded out slightly, so you see the walklines more easily.
	rodcorp.typepad.com /photos/art_2003/tube_walklines_final_lm.html (118 words)

	Creativity and Innovation - training, consultancy, facilitation and e-learning - M1 Creativity
		Beck was not a map drawer, but drew inspiration from his discipline as an electrical draftsman.
		The 'tube map' does not accurately represent the geography or distances of the network, but that is less important than people's understanding of where they where and how they should get to their destinations.
		A map that conveys a clear, unchaotic perspective of a complex journey.
	www.m1creativity.com /creativity-innovation-tube.htm (299 words)

	Prices & Map \| Tube San Marcos Texas \| Lions Club Tube Rental \|Toob Rental for San Marcos Toobers
		The Tube Rental and River Taxi are fund raising projects of the San Marcos Lions Club.
		The Tube Rental is located in the City Park and next to the Texas National Guard Armory.
		To air up your own tube, it's $0.50 to air up a regular sized tube and $1.00 to air up oversized tubes.
	www.tubesanmarcos.com /map.htm (247 words)

	Ask E.T.: London Underground maps (+ worldwide subway maps)
		The Delft version accepts that the underground map is divided into two areas, the inner centre and the outer regions and that each has a different purpose: the inner to allow you to navigate around the centre of London; the outer to get you successfully in and out of London.
		You may check the existing maps at: http://www.mtr.com.hk/jplanner/jplanner/cmapgif.html http://www.kcrc.com.hk/eng/services/routemap/index.asp And my version at: http://homepage.mac.com/roychan/hk-rail.pdf The cable car and disney signs appear very recently, as the services will be opened in coming months (while the airport sign has been there for years), I still need time to adjust for their presence.
		The tube lines move when switching between views, giving a sense of both the distortion applied to create the schematic and the changes in the map since the original version.
	www.edwardtufte.com /bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00005W&topic_id=1 (11490 words)

	Music history rendered on a London Tube Map \| MetaFilter
		Proabably the reason the London Underground map is used Amberglow is in homage, (one of many coming out now), to Simon Patterson's The Great Bear in which the names of the tube stations were replaced with those of artists, philosophers, etc.
		The plethora of London tube maps, including the Grandaddy "Great Bear" map (which is hung in the Tate) are collected at Tube Map Variations.
		The Guardian tube map thing was a pretty pointless exercise, having been done better before.
	www.metafilter.com /49115/Music-history-rendered-on-a-London-Tube-Map (773 words)

	London Tube Map With Distance Grids (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The London Underground Map is famous for ignoring the real geography of the city in favour of a simplified diagram showing the lines and their intersections.
		The map is so prevalent that Londoners and visitors now probably think of the city in terms of the tube map- referring to an area by the name of a station, or thinking of distances in the tube network as well as the real physical distance above ground.
		There have been many maps that try to combine the real geography of the city with the simplicity of the official tube map.
	www.kenkil.plus.com /map (435 words)

	Tube and DLR \| Transport for London
		Tube, DLR, Trams and Train Travelcard zones Map
		Black & white large print Tube map (PDF 191KB)
		Black and white large print Tube index (PDF 54KB)
	www.tfl.gov.uk /tube/maps (35 words)

	SimonClarke.org (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Permission is granted for personal use and modification; If significant original content is added to the map through modification (a derivitave version), then the derivitave version may be distributed for non-commercial purposes provided that suitable credit is given to myself and that this licence is imposed on the modified work.
		This map started life as an attempt to correct the supposedly geographically accurate map that used to be available from London Underground's website.
		I have just about finished work on version 2 of my map which has the benefit of several years more research and the inclusion of all lines ever operated by London Underground and its predecessors.
	www.simonclarke.org /lul (289 words)

	Sites - The Tube Map - Icons of England (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He replaced the names of stations on the Tube map with film stars, explorers and other celebrities.
		How the Tube map would look if it was geographically accurate instead of designed for ease of use.
		Amusing site featuring Tube news and opinions, animals you may find on the Underground, alternative Tube maps, ghost stories, funny pictures and Tube etiquette.
	www.icons.org.uk /theicons/collection/the-tube-map/what-next/sites (226 words)

	iSubwayMaps - Download subway maps for your iPod Photo here! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In both maps there is some overlapping to aid in finding your way from frame to frame.
		The new New York City MTA map, as designed by me. This one uses a few sources as the map: the SPUI map, the onNYTurf.com subway map, and Google Maps New York City outlines.
		The 5G map was made available thanks to Jerry Jones, the 4G map I made.
	www.ipodsubwaymaps.com /download.php (695 words)

	iSubwayMaps - Download subway maps for your iPod Photo here! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In both maps there is some overlapping to aid in finding your way from frame to frame.
		The new New York City MTA map, as designed by me. This one uses a few sources as the map: the SPUI map, the onNYTurf.com subway map, and Google Maps New York City outlines.
		The 5G map was made available thanks to Jerry Jones, the 4G map I made.
	www.isubwaymaps.com /download.php (695 words)

	Boing Boing: Transport for London censors anagram Tube map
		The hilarious remixed London Tube map that substituted anagrams of the station names has been censored off the Internet by lawyers working for Transport for London.
		I blogged the map last week -- it was one of the funniest and most creative re-uses of the familiar map I'd ever seen.
		The London Tube Map is part of the culture of London, a genius work of information design that is as familiar to a Londoner as the familiar pub designs and the fl cabs.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/02/22/transport_for_london.html (326 words)

	The Tube Map - The Tube Map - Icons of England
		The Tube Map - The Tube Map - Icons of England
		The London Underground map designed by Harry Beck in 1931 was so revolutionary in concept that, when London Transport first distributed it, they fully expected the public to reject it.
		It was readily appreciated for its bold simplicity, and for the fact that it got you from A to B. Its main innovation lay in the way it makes free with the realities of geography, as though underground was subject to different spatial laws to the outside world.
	www.icons.org.uk /theicons/collection/the-tube-map (203 words)

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