This is being blogged a bit at the mo [Tomski, 2mlc, etc.] – Rod McLaren’s London Tube map, indicating walklines – connections easier/cheaper to walk than tube. Here it is with the walklines emphasised via fading the tubelines. Utility, beauty. A beautilitarian approach, as my friend Simon Hopkins would say.
On a similar tip, Chris Heathcote has a go at linking tube and bus maps.
While at rodcorp, found these quite beautiful ‘maps’ inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invsible Cities, inc. this one of Trude and Ersilia combined. Stunning. I want to zoom into them.
There was a fantastic SVG version of the tube map at http://www.thesethings.clara.net/ani/ however the site is down so I have taken the liberty of posting it at http://sooper.org/misc/tube.svgz
/michael.
Dan, glad you like the Invisible Cities illustrations/maps – guess we shouldn’t be surprised that you do!
Re: zooming in/seeing more detail: because the text is small it’s difficult without putting up a gigantic file as they’re prepared for durst lambda printing rather than the screen (in their current form).
But here’s a bigger version of the text-less Thekla one (The sky is filled with stars. ‘There is the blueprint’ they say.).
cheers, rodcorp
It moved to
http://home.referral.net.au/thesethings/svg/
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