Alex Ingram wrote:

On a side note - are there any alternative geographical versions of
the london connections map? (a quick Google finds none)

The OAG monthly railway guide has a maps section, but I can't remember how
they portray the London area.

On Sat, 5 May 2007, Alex Ingram wrote:

On a side note - are there any alternative geographical versions of the
london connections map? (a quick Google finds none)

Under construction:

http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/tmp/all-tracks.pdf

This is currently missing the branches the West Anglia line, and
everything south of the river bar the SWML and the tubes. There are a few
oddities in there - mostly due to me going "Why on earth isn't there a
station there? I'll put one in!" as i was entering the data!

And, of course, it currently looks rubbish. I need to sort out the label
overlapping, draw in the actual lines (using a spline fit - i'm not going
for true accuracy yet), apply some colour, and then draw in the rivers and
major areas of uninhabited land.

I should mention that the tube data was lifted wholesale from CULG; i
really should have asked Clive permission before posting this. Apologies
Clive. I'll ask you properly, and add whatever attribution you like,
before i post it properly.

tom

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On Sun, 6 May 2007 12:11:18 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

And, of course, it currently looks rubbish. I need to sort out the label
overlapping, draw in the actual lines (using a spline fit - i'm not going
for true accuracy yet), apply some colour, and then draw in the rivers and
major areas of uninhabited land.

And make it bigger so that the text in the central area is readable

In article , Tom
Anderson writes
I should mention that the tube data was lifted wholesale from CULG; i
really should have asked Clive permission before posting this.
Apologies Clive. I'll ask you properly, and add whatever attribution
you like, before i post it properly.

That's okay.

So long as there's a proper acknowledgement and link to CULG, that's
fine.

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On May 6, 12:29 am, Alex Ingram
wrote:
alex_t wrote:
South Wimbledon and Wimbledon are much closer together and Wimbledon and
Morden are close too.

Updated (and fixed south District and Northern in general):

Very nice, I'd move Gunnersbury up a bit to nestle more between Chiswick
Park and Acton Town, perhaps by moving Acton Town up the curve a bit
more, given that you have the district wiggle into Ealing Broadway
pretty much accurate it seems sensible to make the district better
reflect reality, where the lines to Richmond separate just outside
Turnham Green but run right past the back of Chiswick Park and then run
into a station barely more than a few hundred meters from the lines
running up to Acton Town.

Which is, of course, what the wikipedia version does. Though on it the
Thames ends mysteriously at Kew Bridge.

On a side note - are there any alternative geographical versions of the
london connections map? (a quick Google finds none)

Alex Ingram (who uses Chiswick Park regularly if he can't get a
Gunnersbury train)

Googling for 'geographical tube map' turns up quite a few!

This was my take on such a map...

http://www.simonclarke.org/lul/maps/lul.gif

The stations are placed correctly (taken from a street map), the
routes for the lines in-between are taken from published maps where
available and where not they are taken from research (e.g. pottering
round London with an A-Z looking for vent shafts etc.) and best guess.
There are plenty of inaccuracies that I know of, most of which I have
fixed in my working version.

Regards,
Simon.

On Sun, 6 May 2007, wrote:

On May 6, 12:29 am, Alex Ingram
wrote:

On a side note - are there any alternative geographical versions of the
london connections map? (a quick Google finds none)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That means this one:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/lon_con.pdf

Which, unlike the results you get from ...

Googling for 'geographical tube map'

Includes National Rail lines.

http://www.simonclarke.org/lul/maps/lul.gif

Still an excellent map!

tom

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Alex Ingram wrote:

On a side note - are there any alternative geographical versions of the
london connections map? (a quick Google finds none)


There used to be (a huge) close to geographically correct map called
Multi-Modal Map or something like that on the TfL website but I cannot
find it there anymore. The good thing with that map (and the problem
with it) was that it had almost everything that had to do with public
transport on it. Every bus route, every railway, tube-line, DLR,
Tramlink along with all bus stations, railway/tube/tram/DLR stations,
taxi ranks, dial-a-ride stations, most streets, almost every landmark
you could think of and much more, including borough names and borders
etc. The only thing I missed on it was the travelcard zone boundaries.
You had to print it on a 5 x 4 feet paper or something like that to make
out all the details.

Have anyone found that map on the new TfL website?

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On Sun, 06 May 2007 21:01:25 GMT, Olof Lagerkvist
wrote:

Alex Ingram wrote:

On a side note - are there any alternative geographical versions of the
london connections map? (a quick Google finds none)


There used to be (a huge) close to geographically correct map called
Multi-Modal Map or something like that on the TfL website but I cannot
find it there anymore. The good thing with that map (and the problem
with it) was that it had almost everything that had to do with public
transport on it. Every bus route, every railway, tube-line, DLR,
Tramlink along with all bus stations, railway/tube/tram/DLR stations,
taxi ranks, dial-a-ride stations, most streets, almost every landmark
you could think of and much more, including borough names and borders
etc. The only thing I missed on it was the travelcard zone boundaries.
You had to print it on a 5 x 4 feet paper or something like that to make
out all the details.

Have anyone found that map on the new TfL website?

I haven't, though I may have it on my desktop PC still. (I'm on my
laptop now; can't check).

It's enormous; it fills most of one wall

On 6 Mai, 23:01, Olof Lagerkvist wrote:

There used to be (a huge) close to geographically correct map called
Multi-Modal Map or something like that on the TfL website but I cannot
find it there anymore.

Here's a copy, though 'cache' could mean it won't stay long:
http://cache.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/download...-Modal-Map.pdf

Very nice, I'd move Gunnersbury up a bit to nestle more between Chiswick
Park and Acton Town, perhaps by moving Acton Town up the curve a bit
more, given that you have the district wiggle into Ealing Broadway
pretty much accurate it seems sensible to make the district better
reflect reality, where the lines to Richmond separate just outside
Turnham Green but run right past the back of Chiswick Park and then run
into a station barely more than a few hundred meters from the lines
running up to Acton Town.

Done :-)