Google Maps Mashes It Up With The Tube Map

[sbisson]

A nifty merger of Google Maps with the London Tube Map.

Worth zooming in...

Comments

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Looks like he's just plotted the stations and then joined them up with straight lines, hence there;s stuff like the District/Circle passing under the Thames, when what actually happens is that it runs under Victoria Embankment.

[etriganuk.livejournal.com]

Yup. Not very good - especially as the real data is out there somewhere.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

A good indicator of how clued-up someone is is what they think is happening around Mornington Crescent. This bloke seems to follow the common notion that between Euston and Camden the Charing Cross branch of the Northern Line passes to the west of the City branch, because that's how it's shown on the current version of the Beck map. But the reality is the exact opposite. Mind you, if you zoom into to where the lines emerge above ground and you can trace the rails, his map doesn't follow them.

It's only naive!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,

I'm the author of this page - I know full well that the the stations are only joined up with straight lines. The mashup comes from a research project where I only needed to know the locations of stations and the connections between them - it took me about 5 minutes to adapt my database for this mashup!

Sadly, to show all the lines following their correct paths, it would probably go beyond what is possible with Google maps. I know I could increase the resolution of the lines, but it would then take ages to render! I was only doing it to play around with polylines ;)

Jonathan Stott