Unofficial London Underground Overground DLR and Elizabeth line Crossrail map

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This is the timelapse video showing the progress of my transit diagram of London Underground, Overground, Docklands Light Railway and Crossrail from 8th to 21st August 2014. • Formal version: https://goo.gl/yMzCTM • Night Tube: https://goo.gl/XfcVCS • Alt version: https://goo.gl/cSRUJW • •How is this map practical? • The fares of most TfL train services (sans Tramlink, Watford Junction and Shenfield) in this map uses the same fare chart. If you interchange between these with NR to/from zone 1, the through fare chart is applied and more expensive except for a small amount of NR services overlapping TfL's. • •How long did it take to complete? • Almost 1 week to have all lines in place because I'm a hobbyist and make this alone, but the map is still undergoing revision. • •Why SVG format? • Because it's XML based and increasingly common these days. People can easily access the source and derive their own versions. The SVG version (not the PDF or PNG raster preview in Wikimedia description page) also comes with few interactive functions: By clicking the line stripe in the map or line name in the legend, that line in the map will blink. • •What software do you use? • Notepad++ for SVG/XML coding and Firefox/Safari(mobile) for preview. • •Why not Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator? • These applications pollute the source code. Inkscape is buggy to begin with. A.I. requires hefty subscription to the unsafe Creative Cloud service. Affinity? My little room doesn't have enough space for an extra Mac... • •Why Arial not Johnston? • For consistent font metrics across platforms. • •Why not 45° or 30°/60°? • For differing my map from other versions. The actual angles (36.87°/53.13°) for the diagonal lines come from the (3, 4, 5) Pythagorean triple for simpler calculation of coordinates and curve values. You get fewer irrational numbers due to the absence of square roots from 45°/30°/60°. • •Why the big turns of central Circle/H C/Met/Dis lines? • To signify central London. I can't make it a perfect circle or stadium, but it's still better than making more redundant kinks. • •Why don't bend the orbital Overground lines in the same way? • You will end up with large white space in the centre and everything outside the ring squashed to the edges. • •Why don't call them 'E/S/W/N London Lines ? • Blame TfL: https://goo.gl/U6sALv • •Why no zones? • Hidden by default. https://goo.gl/4sGT1n • •Why is Willesden Junction so far away from Acton? • Topological map is meant to be like that. In order to not bend Central line radically like in reality and reduce the dimension of the map, some degree of inaccuracy is inevitable. • •Why no Thameslink? • It's in the alt version (https://goo.gl/cSRUJW) but I'm yet determined to add it to formal (all orange LO) version. • •Why no accessible symbols? • Hidden and only shows in browser which supports SMIL/SVG animation. If you're mobility-challenged, better use the official full step-free guide: https://goo.gl/AtTm2Z • •X and Y stations are NOT out-of-station interchanges! • http://www.oyster-rail.org.uk/osi-list • •Why all the tilted labels of the line names alongside the lines? • So colourblind readers don't need to rush for an alternative version. • •Why so packed? • Compact is the design principle of my maps. Text for ants is one thing I always avoid at all cost. • •I think your Tube map looks like total dogs dinner! • I'm not gonna change your mind, but it's licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Meaning you don't need my direct permission to use this map for free under 2 conditions: a) you need to attribute the publisher if you use it publicly. A link to the Wikimedia Commons description page of this SVG image or a simple caption like courtesy of Wikimedia or from Wikimedia under the image should do. b) if you redistribute or derive your own version based on this image, the license of the image alone must inherit the original. It doesn't matter which other license you use to publish your work which contains anything derived from my map, it's required by the ShareAlike part of the original license. Effectively others can use your derivative under the CC-BY-SA agreement. The right to derive is what makes you pay for altering the official Tube map, unless you make your own map from scratch and it looks sufficiently different than the copyrighted maps. • •How can I pay you? • I don't bother to make a printed version because this map is getting constant update which makes printing waste of Earth resources. If you wanna help, share my works or donate to Wikimedia Foundation: • http://donate.wikimedia.org

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