In message , at
14:36:40 on Tue, 8 May 2007, Tom Anderson
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!

Can you guarantee you'll have the time to research the position of the
station, and upload a new map based on that? People's circumstances
change, and I'd rather I could see your map with Regents Park shown as
"closed" (and know it was open, but that you hadn't had the time to
update it), than have a void.

Do you anticipate people needing to plan journeys far enough in
advance that they need suhc a map now?

Yes. People have all sorts of reasons they want to know where stations
are - otherwise why are you engaging on this exercise at all???

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?

Because all you have to do is change a symbol, rather then work out
where a new symbol has to go.

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.

If the people you are visiting have a website that doesn't keep up with
this week's station closures, they might very well say "Go to station X,
turn left and walk 100 yds".

In any case, this map isn't aimed at people wanting to plan journeys

Hmm, that seems to me to be a major target audience.

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Roland Perry