On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Mizter T wrote:

On 9 Sep, 19:40, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
In article . com,

(Mizter T) wrote:

Of course a fundamental issue is that the Oxford Circus
cross-platform goodness isn't at all apparent on the Tube map.

What chance this mapping improvement could be made? Has anyone ever
tried?

Since his retirement from international diplomacy Mr Thant has become
especially interested in public transport in London, so much so that
he tried his had at doing just that:
http://tinyurl.com/238mn2
(it is as yet unfinished - or perhaps he intends on having the eastern
side of London nuked)

There was another chap drawing maps a little while ago - we discussed
showing cross-platform interchange, and he did it by only showing cross-
or same-platform interchanges as lines intersecting in a station blob,
with different-platform interchanges shown as linked blobs. I can't
remember his name or the URL, but i thought the maps were quite good. He
was very keen on getting the geography correct.

I had a different idea: show cross-platform interchange by bringing the
lines together to run adjacent just on either side of the station
circle. So if you currently have:

\
\
\/---\
| |------
------| |
\---/\
\
\

You'd instead have:

\
\ /---\
\---| |------
------| |---\
\---/ \
\

Doesn't look like it'd be that hard, but i haven't tried it.

tom

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