Web Innovations Company Inventorize has unveiled its new etail brand MapVendor which aims to deliver the type of map everyone needs for the world's most complex to navigate cities
United Kingdom of Great Britain & N. Ireland (Press Release) August 13, 2007 --
London is often described as a massive cluster of historic villages. The central core is full of character with many distinctive localities. Quickmap have lovingly identified all these distinct localities and given them a node for you to easily find on the map. Being places of great interest, it is of no surprise that these nodes are usually well connected to the public transport system.
Quickmap have coloured the nodes by what fare-zone they belong to. The majority of these nodes are circular in shape. However, Quickmap have denoted some nodes as squares where they have found the interchange between public transport services to be difficult.
Unlike some transport maps(such as the famous Beck map of the London Underground) the All-on-One puts places before transport links in their design. The cartography is excellent - they have created a visually stimulating map, that contains the whole of London’s complex transport system within one side of A3 whilst remaining as geographically accurate as possible.
While the nodes are set out spatially according to their true relative geographical position it is important to note that the map has a “fish-eye” lens – meaning that the distances between nodes on the edges of the map represent longer true distances than the distances between nodes in the centre of the map. In other words, it is possible to walk between Waterloo and Trafalgar Square in just over 10 minutes but it would certainly not be as advisable to try walking between Acton and Turnham Green!
Londoners all know and understand London’s tube network through seeing Beck’s London Underground map. However, many Londoners have become such expert users of the tube that they become frustrated at the “lies” which the maps tells them in relation to understanding the relative over-ground distances between tube stops and the geographical inaccuracies of the map. For example Waterloo is shown on the Beck map as much further south than Victoria, when in fact these two locations are directly east and west from each other.
In recent years Transport for London (TfL) have invested a lot of money into bus priority measures throughout London. The most noticeable are the increase in bus-lanes, and the introduction of the Oyster smart-card to reduce boarding times. This has had the effect of drastically improving the reliability, speed and frequency of services. Twice as many people are traveling by bus in London today than 5 years ago.
This version of the map represents day-time bus services. London enjoys quite a comprehensive night-time service, with a number of 24-hour and night-bus operations. However, service frequencies are lower and routes differ. We’ll have to wait for now before a night-time version of the bus network (perhaps painted in glow in the dark ink!) is available from Quickmap, but for the time-being Quickmap have helpfully listed the 24 hour and night-buses in a table on the back cover of the map.
Quickmap have coloured the nodes by what fare-zone they belong to. The majority of these nodes are circular in shape. However, Quickmap have denoted some nodes as squares where they have found the interchange between public transport services to be difficult.
Unlike some transport maps(such as the famous Beck map of the London Underground) the All-on-One puts places before transport links in their design. The cartography is excellent - they have created a visually stimulating map, that contains the whole of London’s complex transport system within one side of A3 whilst remaining as geographically accurate as possible.
While the nodes are set out spatially according to their true relative geographical position it is important to note that the map has a “fish-eye” lens – meaning that the distances between nodes on the edges of the map represent longer true distances than the distances between nodes in the centre of the map. In other words, it is possible to walk between Waterloo and Trafalgar Square in just over 10 minutes but it would certainly not be as advisable to try walking between Acton and Turnham Green!
Londoners all know and understand London’s tube network through seeing Beck’s London Underground map. However, many Londoners have become such expert users of the tube that they become frustrated at the “lies” which the maps tells them in relation to understanding the relative over-ground distances between tube stops and the geographical inaccuracies of the map. For example Waterloo is shown on the Beck map as much further south than Victoria, when in fact these two locations are directly east and west from each other.
In recent years Transport for London (TfL) have invested a lot of money into bus priority measures throughout London. The most noticeable are the increase in bus-lanes, and the introduction of the Oyster smart-card to reduce boarding times. This has had the effect of drastically improving the reliability, speed and frequency of services. Twice as many people are traveling by bus in London today than 5 years ago.
This version of the map represents day-time bus services. London enjoys quite a comprehensive night-time service, with a number of 24-hour and night-bus operations. However, service frequencies are lower and routes differ. We’ll have to wait for now before a night-time version of the bus network (perhaps painted in glow in the dark ink!) is available from Quickmap, but for the time-being Quickmap have helpfully listed the 24 hour and night-buses in a table on the back cover of the map.
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