July 10th 07, 01:54 PM
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London Connections - coloured
Tom Anderson wrote:
Right,
All that stuff about maps got me thinking. It should be possible to
colour in the lines on the London Connections map to show which termini
trains run to. Since i'm a dab hand with the Gimp, i thought i'd give it
a go myself. Here's the first draft, which so far only has the
Paddington lines done:
http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/tmp/Lon...(Coloured).png
Apologies for the weird look; i had to rasterise the PDF to edit it, and
it's come out funny (blame Ghostscript!).
The reason i'm posting it with one line done (well, two, as i'm planning
to do Thameslink in black!) is to ask: does this look completely rubbish
or what? I think colouring in the edges of the quite thin NR lines isn't
visually strong enough. Am i wasting my time doing it like this? An
alternative route would be to dig out Illustrator and see if i can make
the lines a bit thicker.
For those who care, i'm picking colours by associating each terminus
with a tube line, based on the area served, and copying its colour. I'm
currently thinking:
Paddington - H&C
Marylebone - Metropolitan
Euston - Bakerloo
St Pancras - Northern (Thameslink is like the Northern line of railways)
King's Cross - Piccadilly
Moorgate - as King's Cross
Liverpool Street - Central
Fenchurch Street - Jubilee
London Bridge - East London
Cannon Street - as London Bridge
Blackfriars - Northern (as St Pancras)
Charing Cross - as London Bridge
Waterloo - District
Victoria - Victoria (hey, it's a link!)
orbital lines - Circle
I'm not totally convinced about Fenchurch Street and London Bridge, or
the orbital lines.
tom
The address link doesn't work for me!
MikeR
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