Norwich Does Have Good Maps
I found this map of Norwich outside the station at Norwich.
An Understandable Map at Norwich
Even the most stupid, who could read a map would be able to find Carrow Road on this map, as it’s marked with as a black and white football.
Where are maps like this in places like Blackpool?
All Adventures Start At Stanfords
Stanfords is one of my favourite shops as it stocks my pornography; maps.
Stanfords Travel Bookshop
So I went there last night to get a county map for Lancashire, as this county seems to contain a lot of the difficult teams.
Personalised Spider Bus Maps
London’s spider bus maps are good and are starting to be copied by other places. This is the one for Bruce Grove and Bruce Castle.
I think it would be rather nice if you could create personalised ones, so that you could show all the routes to or from your house or business.
The Most Well Known Piece of Art In The World
I took the Northern Line to Finchley Central station today, to see the plaque dedicated to the creator of the most well known piece of art in the world. Although we generally don’t think of it as such, the London Underground map is so recognisable, that show it to many five-year-olds in farawy places and they will recognise Harry Beck ‘s amazing solution to the problem of how to create an understandable map for a transport system. It was so good, that within a few decades it had become a standard used all over the world.
Plaque Remembering Harry Beck at Finchley Central
The picture shows the plaque dedicated to Harry, who used the station regularly.
Harry Beck's Original London Underground Map
This picture shows a facimile of his original map.
Alomgside this is said in the text.
The map shown on this panel is a reproduction of Harry Beck’s 1933 design – the first to be mass produced in a pocket form. Alongside you will see today’s diagram; although there are more stations and lines operating today, the design has been easily adapted to change and growth – a true testament to the genius of its originator.
There is little more to say. Except that all modern Underground maps acknowledge Beck in the bottom left corner.
Does A Blank Square Exist On An Ordnance Survey Map?
They are talking about the Ordnance Survey on BBC Breakfast this morning?
At my primary school, de Bohun in Southgate, there was a guy called Peter Laws. His parents were keen walkers and the family always scanned a new map to see if any of the one-kilometre squares on the map were blank. They had never found one!
But that was in 1958 or so!
So does a mythical blank square actually exist?
Every time I’ve bought a map in the last fifty years or so, I’ve always searched and never found one.
Maps
Why is it most European maps don’t fold correctly?
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