Tom Anderson wrote:
I've had an idea!

A map of London - could be geographical, could be a Beckian diagram -
showing where the bus hubs are. By 'bus hubs', i mean places that
have a
spider map centred on them. The point of this is that if you're
somewhere,
and you want to figure out how to get somewhere else by bus, you can
use
this map to figure out which spider map you want.

At the moment, there's no way to do this except local knowledge. For
instance, friday after next, i'll want to get from NW1 3EE to NW1
7AY. I
can plug this into the journey planner, and that's great, but i want
a
spider map for the starting end, so i can instantly see what bus
lines go
where, where i can catch them from, where else i might be able to go,
etc.
I guess the destination is Camden Town, but is the start also that?
Warren Street? Mornington Crescent? Euston?

Brilliant or what? Has this been done?

tom

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Check out my nodal bus map at http://www.quickmap.com/snip2.htm which
addresses some of your points.

Andrew

This map is rubbish.
Can't read it.

"Andrew" wrote in message
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Tom Anderson wrote:
I've had an idea!

A map of London - could be geographical, could be a Beckian diagram -
showing where the bus hubs are. By 'bus hubs', i mean places that
have a
spider map centred on them. The point of this is that if you're
somewhere,
and you want to figure out how to get somewhere else by bus, you can
use
this map to figure out which spider map you want.

At the moment, there's no way to do this except local knowledge. For
instance, friday after next, i'll want to get from NW1 3EE to NW1
7AY. I
can plug this into the journey planner, and that's great, but i want
a
spider map for the starting end, so i can instantly see what bus
lines go
where, where i can catch them from, where else i might be able to go,
etc.
I guess the destination is Camden Town, but is the start also that?
Warren Street? Mornington Crescent? Euston?

Brilliant or what? Has this been done?

tom

--
I see large and small words on this page, arranged in long rows
separated by little dotty characters. Suspect written by little dotty
characters, too. -- RonJeffries



Check out my nodal bus map at http://www.quickmap.com/snip2.htm which
addresses some of your points.

Andrew

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Nick wrote:

This map is rubbish. Can't read it.

Are you talking about the picture on the website or the A3 printout? The
web picture is certainly a bit tiny to be helpful, but i've seen the
printed one in the wild (at Stanfords, i think; i might even have a copy
somewhere in my map mountain), and it's really rather good; it's visually
quite overwhelming, very unlike a Beckian map, but it does have all the
information and actually makes it very accessible. It makes planning
direct trips pretty easy, but doesn't help with those which need changes;
thus, it works well for central London, but might not be so useful for the
whole city. Still, you could use it to work out which spiders you needed.

tom

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