Tube map

The Tube map is the commonly-used name for the schematic diagram used to represent the lines and stations of the London Underground.

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A schematic diagram rather than a map, it does not represent geography but relations; it distorts the positions of the stations considerably. The basic design concepts, especially that of mapping topologically rather than geographically, have been widely adopted for other route maps around the world.

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The original map http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tube/images/company/history/beckmap1.jpg was designed in 1931 by London Transport employee Harry Beck, who realised that, because the railway ran mostly underground, the actual physical locations of the stations were irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get to one station from another — only the topology of the railway mattered. This approach is similar to electrical circuit diagrams; while this wasn't the inspiration for Beck's diagram, his colleagues pointed out the similarities and he once produced a joke map with the stations replaced with electrical circuit symbols and names with terminology: "bakelite" for "Bakerloo", etc. In fact Beck based his diagram on a similar mapping system for underground sewage systems.

Schematic diagram: REDIRECT Schematic...

Topologically: redirect topology...

1931: 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday....

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