{"id":1809224,"date":"2022-09-29T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809224"},"modified":"2022-09-29T09:30:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:30:44","slug":"unfinished-london-history-of-the-tube-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/unfinished-london-history-of-the-tube-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfinished London: History of the Tube Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Tube Map nearly looked very different\" width=\"760\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cTLCfl01zuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cTLCfl01zuE\">Jay Foreman\u2019s look at the history of London\u2019s Tube map<\/a> is presented as part of his <em>Unfinished London<\/em> series, rather than as an episode of <em>Map Men<\/em>, of which he is half, so it\u2019s in a slightly different mode. <em>Slightly<\/em>. It\u2019s also just the first part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Foreman\u2019s look at the history of London\u2019s Tube map is presented as part of his Unfinished London series, rather than as an episode of Map Men, of which he is half, so it\u2019s in&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/09\/unfinished-london-history-of-the-tube-map\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[1196,166,204],"class_list":["post-1809224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-transit","tag-beck","tag-london","tag-tube","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1810130,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/11\/part-two-of-unfinished-londons-tube-map-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809224,"position":0},"title":"Part Two of Unfinished London&#8217;s Tube Map History","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"29 November 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jaEhvWXmLyk And here\u2019s part two of Jay Foreman\u2019s history of London Tube\u2019s map, which looks at its post-Beck existence and increasing clutter and complication. 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At last month\u2019s NACIS conference he revealed two versions of a redesign that does just that. Based on an earlier\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Transit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"One of two redesigned London tube maps by Kenneth Field. 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This one\u2019s a bit meta. Arturs D., a student living in London, has created a map of the present-day London underground using Harry Beck\u2019s original style. The current TfL network map (PDF) is,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Transit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Transit","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/transit\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/arturs-beck-1024x717.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/arturs-beck-1024x717.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/arturs-beck-1024x717.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/arturs-beck-1024x717.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4214,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/04\/a-tube-map-of-roman-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809224,"position":5},"title":"A Tube Map of Roman London","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"10 April 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"A thing from 2015 that I hadn't seen until recently: Londonist's Tube Map of Roman London. \"Stations indicate sites of major Roman landmarks, such as gates in the wall, municipal buildings and temples. Nobody knows what the Romans called their creations, so we've used the modern names, like Ludgate and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;History&quot;","block_context":{"text":"History","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/roman-tube-1024x697.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/roman-tube-1024x697.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/roman-tube-1024x697.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/roman-tube-1024x697.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809226,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809224\/revisions\/1809226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}