The London Traveler

Mapping seems to have become a cool activity these days. I’ve just found another fantastic map of London, obviously very much based on the famous Tube map.
Only difference – this one is for walkers.
Space Syntax is developing  a pedestrian routemap for the city. It’s simple, colourful and vivid. Maybe it’s not completely up to showing all the lumps and bumps – like the Tube map it’s heavily simplified – but its ‘monuments route’, ’shopping route’, and ‘waterfront routes’ together with prominently labelled landsmarks make it great to use for your planning – how to get from A to B. Maybe …read more

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The ‘Harry Beck’ tube map is well known and loved by many for the way it reduces the chaotic London Underground system to a semblance of order. It’s not geographically accurate – the central ‘rectangle’ of the District and Circle Lines actually looks more like a doughnut that went badly wrong, and the Central Line to the east and District Line to the west aren’t anything like the straight lines that are shown on the map.
If you want a completely different idea of how the tube lines work, take a look at this amazing new map by Max Roberts. …read more

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