In future an accurate map might be less important than an abstract map," says Bertrand. "And maybe we've started that process." Hat tip to Metrography wasn't designed for navigation, but Benedikt and Betrand think that maps like this could become popular. "," says Bertrand. "." Hat tip to Wired who published this in their May 2012 issue.

You've seen a lot of Tube Maps which attempt to show what they should look like if geographically accurate . However, students Benedikt Groß and Bertrand Clerc, from Royal College of Art in Kensington, have turned this on its head somewhat. They believe that Londoners now have the Tube Map ingrained in their heads so much that we actually think London looks like the London Underground map. Benedikt said ." As we know Harry Beck's Tube map for many is "."He continued "." The black dots are from the Tube map - the red dots are the real locations.In a project called Metrography , they have taken 1,865,565 data points from OpenStreetMap & merged them with TfL's Tube map. The latitude and longitude of each point is then recalculated, keeping the positions of the Thames and stations as fixed references to produce a rather beautiful map below





What do you think? Is the quest to find or design a geographically accurate Tube Map actually quite redundant and pointless now? If so many of us see London as the Tube Map, would a geographically accurate one be more of a hindrance than a help? Or should the real Tube Map make more efforts to show that distances that look far away from each other are actually quite close? Is this something that could encourage more of us to walk between stations (probably quite useful given the levels of Tube overcrowding predicted for the Olympic Games)?





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