London Underground geographic maps
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A series of geographic maps of the London Underground in the LU house-style have been made by ed g2s • talk and James F.. These images are based solely on GPS data, which is in the public domain, and they are available under the GFDL.
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[edit] Creation process
A PHP script processes the line definitions to create list of stations on the line, calculates coordinates of the control points for bézier_curve, and then outputs the graphic as an SVG file. The SVG files are then fine tuned in an SVG editor (text placement, mostly) and rendered as PNGs.
more detail to come
[edit] Resultant maps
Category:London Underground lines
[edit] Individual lines
[edit] Overall maps
 Full map |
[edit] Derivatives
Category:London Underground lines derivatives
 Northern Line Explosions and Shooting (SVG) |
 Zone 1 with street map |
[edit] To do
- Bakerloo
- Correct the spelling of "Harrow & Wealdstone" on the map.
- Extend to Watford (when planned extension occurs at currently unspecified date)
- At Edgware Road, the Bakerloo Line station is to the north of the station serving the Circle, District, and Hammersmith & City lines. The map shows it as being south of the Circle line station.
- Move Willesden Junction to zone 2/3
- Metropolitan
- Separate the Jubilee and Met lines between Finchley Road and Wembley Park on the combination map as the Met Line doesn't serve the intermediate stations.
- Northern
- Create map including extensions from new works programme and Sutton extension?
- Piccadilly
- Line changes - Heathrow T5, East London Line extension (and current closure of Shoreditch), DLR extension(s).
- Waterloo & City
- Add updated map as per Wikipedia page
- DLR
- Add Langdon Park
- Add Woolwich Arsenal
- Other lines
- London Overground (en:Northern City Line, en:North London Line, ...) and lines-to-be (en:Crossrail, ...)
- Non-LU mid-London lines (Thameslink, ...)
- Remove East London Line for 2008; re-add with extension, without Shoreditch, in 2009.
- General design
- Integrate with Google Maps
- Suggest adding M25 to "London Underground Full map" to improve context. Also to demonstrate inherent northernwards bias of tube line distribution.
- Add mid-station control points - i.e., Piccadilly line should bend sharply twice between Knightsbridge and South Kensington, the Jubilee line takes a significant eastward curve between Baker Street and Bond Street, and the Northern and Bakerloo lines don't actually share track as they cross the river. The 'find location' map browser of the journey planner on the TFL website shows the undergound line routes as dotted lines (http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/)
- Put station markers where the platforms are rather than the surface entrances? There are big differences for some stations. The maps could show platform locations, with little blobs-on-sticks showing the asscoiated entrance(s).
- Perhaps include closed lines in overall map, represented by semi-transparent lines.
[edit] Templates
[edit] Planned changes
2008:
- Piccadilly line: Heathrow Terminal 5 extension.
- Hammersmith & City line: new station at Wood Lane and Shepherd's Bush re-named to Shepherd's Bush Market.
2009:
- DLR: Woolwich Arsenal extension
2010:
- East London line/London Overground extension to Dalston Junction, Crystal Palace and West Croydon.
- DLR: Stratford International extension
2011:
- London Overground northern extension from Dalston Junction to Highbury & Islington.
Unknown date (but likely by 2012):
- London Overground western extension from Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction
[edit] Source data
The source data is available as an SQL dump, as a CSV file, and as readable HTML tables.
[edit] Source code
Here is the script used to generate the rough maps. It generates Bezier curves that smoothly fit the points, and station markers on both sides (when not a dot), so each map will require a manual clean-up.
