"Chris" wrote in message
om...

Yes, you can get maps for free from LT, but they're not credit card
sized.

The Z-card maps available *free* from stations in The City sound a lot
better than what you are proposing.

I've got an idea for how you could make a credit-card sized map that would
blow people's socks off. Production costs would be dearer than what you are
proposing, though.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

John Rowland wrote:
"Chris" wrote in message
om...

Yes, you can get maps for free from LT, but they're not credit card
sized.

The Z-card maps available *free* from stations in The City sound a lot
better than what you are proposing.

I've got an idea for how you could make a credit-card sized map that
would blow people's socks off. Production costs would be dearer than
what you are proposing, though.

Personally I'd rather not have both an expensive map that I couldn't read
*and* cold feet.

Seriously, why this obsession with credit-card sized maps? It's a linear
reduction by a factor of 2.5 on the pocket tube map, which means that the
letters of the station names will be only about 0.4 mm high, or in printing
parlance about 1.6-point. What's the use of that?
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

Richard J. wrote:
Seriously, why this obsession with credit-card sized maps? It's a
linear reduction by a factor of 2.5 on the pocket tube map, which
means that the letters of the station names will be only about 0.4 mm
high, or in printing parlance about 1.6-point. What's the use of
that?

Um - cos it fits in the wallet alongside all one's credit cards? Don't know
about you, but often the *only* thing I have with me is my mobile phone and
my credit-card-sized wallet, especially if I'm going out on the town. I
don't carry a girlie handbag with space for the z-card map in it.

I used to have the Mercury phone card (and thus credit-card sized) with the
Zone 1/2 map on the face, despite knowing the tube lines off by heart it's
still occasionally useful to quickly glance at the tube map, or show to some
tourists who've stopped you in the street and asked how to get to "x" etc.