On 2015\12\16 18:15, Guy Gorton wrote:
On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:48:18 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:



http://www.inat.fr/metro/london/

You might find it easier to save the save it to your hard drive and use
a preview or image viewer there.

Mostly I like it, but some things are deplorable.

The East London line through Whitechapel and the line through Cambridge
Heath are the same colour and almost co-linear, so the eye follows them
as a single line.

Similarly, the Overground lines through Camden Road and South Hampstead
acquire an imaginary Primrose Hill connection if you aren't careful.

The Chiltern line is one of the lowest layers and the Met is one of the
highest layers, causing odd effects where crossing other lines at
Northwick Park and West Hampstead.

The Southeastern services through Crofton Park are missing.

But the portrayal of the West Croydon - Tulse Hill area is an
improvement over the standard LC map... even if three lines of nearly
the same colour crossing over the same spot just south of Selhurst is a
complete disaster.

Does it matter that Chiltern out of Marylebone is shown as going under
various other lines whereas in nearly every case it goes over them?

I wasn't referring to whether lines go over or under each other in real
life. On a map, thin features should usually be drawn over fat features
so that the visual discontinuity is minimised. So at West Hampstead the
orange should be over the blue and purple, whereas at Northwick Park the
orange and its three buddies should go under the blue and purple (the
fact that these are different orange lines is irrelevant). This may
require a railway line to be in a low layer in some parts of the diagram
and a high layer in others, whereas I suspect he has just given each
railway line a single layer globally.

Another problem is Finsbury Park to Kings Cross. Anyone trying to plan a
route here will certainly see the 4-stop route, and might see the 2-stop
route, but the non-stop route is hard to see, partly because of multiple
pointless bends and partly because the Victoria Line is practically
drawn over the junction in the green line. If he must keep the NR line
in that X-Y position (I see no reason why he should), then the Vic
should go under it near Drayton Park and near Angel so that the Vic
doesn't obscure the junction and bend, but the Vic should remain over
the NR line at Finsbury Park so that the NR doesn't obscure the Vic's bend.