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Electronic tube map
This morning Paddington H&C station was fitted with a new electronic tube map, consisting of a touch screen about 2 metres high and wide. One was installed at Cannon Street two weeks ago, and they will be rolled out to most if not all stations. Large virtual buttons switch it between displaying the tube map (if that's still what it's called... the tube will soon be a minority of what it displays), the London Connections map and the walking distances map (the one that has 2 minutes to walk from Aldgate East to Whitechapel). The resolution isn't quite good enough to make the full -size maps effortlessly readable, but you can pinch and zoom in on any part of the map, as if it's a 4 square metre iPhone. I could make a long list of criticisms, and conclude with the statement that this is about as bad as it could possibly be while still meeting the spec drawn up by a manager on the back of an envelope. However, the station staff explained that this is just version 1.0 and they have big plans to improve it: for instance you will be able to click on stations and get a route to your destination highlighted, and it will show which lines are shut for engineering. So I will not complain just yet... although amusingly the map has Paddington station missed off, and has TCR half-shut when it's actually fully open again. And Greenford not wheelchair accessible. |
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