I Can See The Whole World From Up Here

[liadnan]

From the ever-fertile brain of Nou, as a byproduct of something else: London Tube Line stations plotted against Google satellite maps.

That link shows the Piccadilly Line but the others can be found either by fairly obvious URL-munging or by selecting the line here, selecting the map option at the bottom of each page and then choosing map, satellite or hybrid as you wish. Or see all of them at once here.

In other news, I feel like shite.

Comments

[susumu.livejournal.com]

Nice, but this one is considerably slicker.

http://tubejp.co.uk/

[kake]

I was vaguely hoping, just out of interest, that people would point out other people who've done the same thing better. As liadnan says, mine was a by-product of something else; it just happened to have a pretty thing fall out of it, so I showed people the pretty thing. (Hence the lack of polylines on my version - I didn't need that data.)

The actual purpose of the site is to act as a database of interesting things in London, tagged by what they are, and with complete location data. It's not so much for looking up details on something you already know exists — there are plenty of London restaurant and pub guides already — but for finding things that you didn't already know about, and for acting as a kind of external brain for times when you might want to find all real ale pubs serving food in the evenings within a short distance of a particular cinema; or find all sushi places within a short distance of any Jubilee Line station; or look at a map of places tagged as "Take Kake Here" to see where to ask me out that evening :) It's very focused on being of use to its actual contributors, so it's pretty unstructured by default; the contributors build the structure as they go, and I write new search tools as people ask for them.

[susumu.livejournal.com]

That is actually an extremely good idea and I will try to remember to use it!

[kake]

Cool - please do feel free to add anything to it that you might find useful.

Today's fun query: plan your own Circle Line pub crawl.

[babysimon]

That is very nice indeed. No DLR LCY, but they've done a decent job of copying the real kinks in the tube lines. Colour me a happy transport geek.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

In other news, I feel like shite.

Wassup?

[liadnan]

Dose of some flu-type virus. More knackering than anything else, at least now.

[itinerantsphinx.livejournal.com]

Aww, hope you feel better soon.

Eat lots of oranges. Or something like that(??)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Superb - and I'm sure that's me strolling in Green Park...

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

why o why?

[liadnan]

Cos it's fun and pretty?
(And a by-product of something useful.)

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

no no no why do u feel shite?

[liadnan]

Dose of flu-type virus with a nasty post-viral fatigue sting.

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

blah

[sshi.livejournal.com]

oh man, the nostalgia. I never did manage to get one of those Picadilly Line overground posters.

[memetic-glutton.livejournal.com]

Cool. The mathematician in me wonders about the reverse mapping - massaging the real London map into the grid given by the Tube map. Completely useless of course, but might be interesting.