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Old May 4th 05, 06:01 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is offline
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I've had an idea!

A map of London - could be geographical, could be a Beckian diagram -
showing where the bus hubs are. By 'bus hubs', i mean places that have a
spider map centred on them. The point of this is that if you're somewhere,
and you want to figure out how to get somewhere else by bus, you can use
this map to figure out which spider map you want.

At the moment, there's no way to do this except local knowledge. For
instance, friday after next, i'll want to get from NW1 3EE to NW1 7AY. I
can plug this into the journey planner, and that's great, but i want a
spider map for the starting end, so i can instantly see what bus lines go
where, where i can catch them from, where else i might be able to go, etc.
I guess the destination is Camden Town, but is the start also that?
Warren Street? Mornington Crescent? Euston?

Brilliant or what? Has this been done?

tom

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