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Posted by Rail Blue on Thu Jan 18 09:33:18 2007, in response to Re: TfL finally updates London Connections map..., posted by Max Roberts on Thu Jan 18 06:21:50 2007. The triple line is really bad between Great Portland St and Farringdon on the current map, where it obliterates the Piccadilly, Northern, and Victoria lines.It's pretty indicative of a rubbish service pattern. It's really quite tempting to abolish the Circle, divert the Met to run Finchley Road - Baker Street - Marble Arch - Hyde Park Corner - Victoria - Clapham Junction - [portal] - Wandsworth Common, and add a Heathrow/Slough branch to the Hammersmith & City Line. Some rip-off Underground maps separate the lines slightly (see p88/89 of my book) Ah, the "too much Oktoberfest" map! They still insist on putting a curve in the Northern (CX) Line at exactly the worst possible point though. Rotating the 'crazy map' as I call it might look tempting, but it interferes with some station name placements, and transfers the awkward kink in the Central Line at Shepherd's bush into an awkward kink in the District Line at St James's Park, an would throw too much of the District and Piccadilly Line ino the lower left corner. Evrything on this map has been done for a reason, albeit not necessarily an obvious one. Aaarrrggghhh! I would really need to lock myself away in a room for a month with no contact with the rest of the human race to do this properly, but I have so many other things to do. I can't imagine how you managed to get all the tick symbols right at those angles. Circles must have been tempting (at least they're the same every way up and don't get screwed up by snap-to-grid)... Hmm, London connections. I've sort of done this already. I adapted the map to show the BR London services which were comparable with the Underground: In the zonal system, with a service at least every 15 minutes 7 days a week, 18 hours a day. Its quite deptessing, although many gaps are down to sloppy timetabling (e.g. take a look at London/Lewisham on a Sunday: three trains every 30 minutes, but they all run within 10 minutes of each other). And beyond Moor Park is still rubbish! But really, it just shows how the service patterns in South London are a bad joke (places you'd expect to be there - e.g. Kingston, Sutton, Purley - still have that poor a service). Past work wasn't so much bloopers, as trying to optimise the concept. For example, inspired by Beck's notebook, (see pages 74-76 of Ken Garland's book) and discovering that SuperPaint had a feature that permitted constraining a line to 30/60 degrees off I went. A 30/60 map would look really really weird. There's a distinct danger of it going 3-D (which would actually be quite fun!). You end up with a diagrammatic map that is geographically inaccurate and looks frightening :-) I might have some time tomorrow to make some scans, including the Met experimental stock, I haven't forgotten. Thanks! Don't forget that with a fantasy map, it is sort of OK to modify your fantasy a little bit if it makes drawing the map easier. Well, I reckon stopping going perfectionist over Piccadilly Circus, King's Cross, and Euston would actually make me finish it. I'm beginning to suspect those areas will either always be horrid or make the map absolutely massive! Actually, I think I'll go and get on with it now, and leave those areas horrid! |
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