On Tue, 8 May 2007, Roland Perry wrote:

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

Just to point out that i'm not the OP, and it's not my map!

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.

I take your point. But equally, if you want to be able to see at a glance
where there are stations you can use, showing closed stations is
unhelpful. Anyway, both points are moot, since this map isn't aimed at
passengers.

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???

See below!

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.

Yebbut if he adds that symbol now, he has to do the working out step now.
The total work for your suggestion is working out location + drawing
closed symbol + changing symbol, whereas the alternative is merely working
out location + drawing symbol - a whole symbol change less!

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".

Ah yes, true. I have a strong personal dislike of directions, so tend to
just take the location and do the rest myself; i forget other people
aren't wired that way.

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.

Not for this map! For those people, there are the official maps on the TfL
website. This map is for Alex to use as a basis for showing variations on
the network, for the entertainment of people like us who are interested in
it for its own sake.

tom

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