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Subject:        London 'Tube' map redesigned by Mark Noad (2011)
Date:   Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:22:38 +0100
From:   Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
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For a zoomable - and legible - redesigned London ‘Tube’ map by Mark
Noad, publicised today (Tuesday, 28 June 2011) in the free newspaper
/Metro/ (London) and elsewhere, see http://london-tubemap.com/

The designer’s intention, according to the colour-illustrated article by
Tariq Tahir in the aptly-titled /Metro/, was to redraw “the Tube map so
that it shows the routes and distances between stations more
accurately.” Noad, commenting on the traditional Harry Beck 1931 map,
calls that “a brilliant piece of information design” but believed it
needed an update. On his redesigned map he says, “This is not intended
as a replacement to the official version – it is simply another way to
look at it.”

Francis Herbert (a Londoner, who may now have to replace his MacDonald
Gill tube map of March 1922)

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