Owen Massey McKnight ([info]addedentry) wrote in [info]cartographica,
@ 2004-08-11 21:45:00
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Entry tags:london, rail

Underground, overground
The London Underground map is famously (and pedantically) not a map but a diagram, ignoring the geography of the city to show the connections more clearly.

People sometimes wonder what a geographical map would look like:

http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Tube_Map%2FGeographically_Accurate_Tube_Map

Now a photoblogger has overlaid this version on a satellite photograph of Greater London, with spectacular results:

http://www.nyclondon.com/blog/archives/2004/08/07/london_tube_map.blog




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