On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Dave A wrote:

The problem with that is that where there are long routes that can be
shrunk in a spider diagram but will not fit into a traditional map -
this is the case for many routes on the central London traditional
map. The most useful connections will be those outside central London,
which wouldn't be represented by the map I describe.

I (still) hate the spider maps.

I'd like bus shelters to bear accurate mathematically distorted
geographical maps, where, for instance, distance from the centre of the
map is proportional to the square root of the actual distance on the
ground,

Nah, logarithm.

and any super-long routes have an arrow at the edge of the map listing
further destinations. Each group of routes which serve the same local
stops would be shown as a single coloured line, which then branches into
the different routes towards the edge of the map....

http://www.openstreetmap.org/
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/spiders/
http://www.gimp.org/

Get busy!

tom

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