On Tue, 8 May 2007, Roland Perry wrote:

In message .com, at
02:12:40 on Tue, 8 May 2007, alex_t remarked:

Maybe needs a suitable symbol, rather than being completely missing.

Well, it is closed anyway - you can use it. So why show it?

So people can plan their future journeys for when it reopens,

?!?!

When it reopens, there'll be a new map showing it! Do you anticipate
people needing to plan journeys far enough in advance that they need suhc
a map now?

and you don't have much to do, to update the map, when that happens.

That makes no sense at all. How does adding it now save effort over adding
it later?

In the mean time it will help them pick the closest *open* station.

I don't think this makes sense either. Who deals with station closure by
picking the nearest open station? You look at a map to see which surviving
station is closest to your actual destination, and then go to the tube map
to work out how to get there.

In any case, this map isn't aimed at people wanting to plan journeys - as
Alex said at the top of the thread, apart from being for his own
amusement, it's part of a railfannish project to create maps of variants
of the network - as well as his current and disrupted maps, i assume he's
going to draw one with the ELLX open, one with Crossrail, and ones for
various other ideas that are floating around, like the Central line to
Richmond, Chelsea - Hackney, Crossrail 3, Bakerloo to Camberwell, etc.

Having said all that, one of the variants could be one showing closed
stations greyed out - with permanently and temporarily closed stations
indicated differently, perhaps.

Personally, i'd suggest he do the variants as transparent PNG overlays to
go on top of the base map, so he can do super-funky CSS2 tricks. Would be
fun to have a web page with a map on the right, and a set of tickboxes on
the left with which you can turn off and on various extensions in any
combination you like.

tom

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