The genius of the London Tube Map | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series 

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@@milkycloud. sksmowley*

someone tried to 'fix' the nyc map the way you suggested, and it didn't go well. geographical accuracy can still be important.

@@jessicafreeman1970 Americans don't like change. Hence why you don't use the metric system and guns are so easily available.

​@@jessicafreeman1970, why did it not go well?

Write to them. Complain about this bad and lazy practice! (I can't find a place to write to them directly! GUILTY OF BIG COMPANYISM!)

@@farvision Relax.

me too

There are worse things you can get spammed by, than educational and informative videos. ;)

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Nice! I see what they did there, haha

Such Satisfying, Much Wow

Dont get it

QUICKGAM3R it's pie

@@Cpt005 It's pi number 3.14

moosemooseson : I have done that. And later found it took only a minute to walk from Queensway to Bayswater.

@@runarandersen878 Or Lancaster Gate to Paddington

IKR! LMAO

Tbf is people are stupid enough to do this then tfl deserve to take their money

Yeh and sometimes my destination is closer at Leicester sq .. also they aren’t right next to each other there is a quite a few min walk between them which could be important if ur late to work. L sq it’s also a much easier station to meet friends as it’s smaller. Piccadilly circus is huge and can be confusing with multiple exits - especially to non Londoners. Anyway they are both on the same line so doesn’t make that much difference. There are problems with the london tube map though but these are mainly when stations on different lines are actually right next to each other and it would be quicker to just walk that wait for a station where the lines intersect and change. But overall it’s super useful and the public transport system in London is amazing

A man of culture I see.

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Emily Mast I actually clicked this video, hoping to improve my game.

I was thinking that too! I thought at first I had just seen someone else covering the topic but the video was just this huge deja vu!

Thank you I was thinking the same but wasn't sure since I never saw the other ones.

#MandelaEffect

@@andrearinaldi4655 bruh don't even joke with me. I'm ready to believe at this point

I found the video posted on facebook in January and on TED website in March so I'm pretty sure we're not going crazy.

Arthur Mkrtchyan hello grandpa how's your vinyl , VHS and tape collection ???

Arthur Mkrtchyan these 6 videos are short, equivalent to 1 normal upload 😉 17:00 total😉😉

Jonathan Irons : I think there are other videos on RU-vid about this.

Diagon alley 😉

but that would imply that there are lines going at any angle, not just 45 degrees

@@cybersquirrell1370 Actually, they run at 45○ in both directions, or 45○ and 135○, so lines run at four angles, not three.

Curt Burgess well done sir

There are colourblind friendly versions of the tube map where different lines are represented by different patterns instead of colours

Drawing electrical diagrams was exactly what his job was. It was his idea to use such a diagram instead of the geographically accurate maps.

also in Darkest Hour movie.. Winston Churchill can't use it

@@sizzlinsj8135 oh sorry i actually meant darkest hour i forgot the name.

Ye it's so simple we don't even need a name for the line(s) :D

There's a colour blind version version with different patterns representing the different tube lines: tfl.gov.uk/forms/12387.aspx

Plus the modern version has a different colour per line now, so it’s a lot more colourful - also there still is the colourblind version for those who needed it like he said

​@@JonathanDavidJ Dang! TransJakarta bus in Jakarta, Indonesia need this!. I am partially colorblided. I have once mistakenly boarded on wrong bus route because of i'm interpreting the wrong color of the bus map since they only have colored version of the map, although they also provided Trafi app on smartphone for realtime bus tracking and audio guide through text to speech feature.

Not true. Color blind people are mostly not fully 'color blind'. They can still see color but they just see it differently. They may see turquoise as green. So as long as you avoid the similar color, color blind people can easily tell the difference between red, blue, yellow, black.

Cities around the world got the idea for their respective metro map for graph theory?

Everything is easy when you know how. No one else knew how until this map was designed.

The genius is creating something that's common sense, where common sense was previously absent. Something that makes you wonder why you didn't think of it in the first place.