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Posts Tagged ‘Tube’

Travel Time Tube Map mentioned in New Statesman

In Processing, Weblog on 21 November 2006 tagged Applets, Links, London, magazines, Processing, Processing.org, references, Travel, Tube, Weblog with no comments

My Travel Time Tube Map is mentioned at the end of Peter Ackroyd's City of Illusions article for the New Statesman.  Here's a direct link if you've just arrived from there:

Computing for Emergent Architecture

In Imported, Processing, Uncategorized on 22 February 2006 tagged Maps, Meta, Pintcast, Processing, Transport, Tube with no comments

For better or worse, I share my attention between three blogs: this one which syndicates to Processing Blogs, my personal blog Random Etc, and Computing for Emergent Architecture at UCL.

Often the things I write would be equally suitable for all three, so I thought I'd point you at two recent CfEA posts, one on an interesting project called Waiting and one on some thoughts for Real-time Ego-centric Isochronic Maps.

(If you're being completist about your e-stalking, you'll also want to subscribe to OpenGeoData and PintCast - the latter is a new podcast with Steve Coast and friends that is still finding its feet, and is yet to buy a good microphone...)

Tube Travel Contours

In Imported, Processing, Uncategorized on 21 February 2006 tagged Applets, Contours, London, Maps, Processing, Transport, Tube, Visualisation with 1 comment

A variation on the tube map time travel applet, this version maintains the geographical layout but adds contours to show how long it takes to travel between stations. The contouring method isn't quite right (I should have used 1D textures), but it's good enough to experiment with.

Travel Time Tube Map

In Imported, Processing, Uncategorized on 31 December 2005 tagged Applets, Data, London, Maps, Processing, Transport, Tube, Visualisation with 2 comments

I've finally had time to get my Travel Time Tube Map applet to a presentable stage.

Here are a couple of screen shots to compare with Oskar and Rod.

There's a list of desired improvements on the applet page, but the next step for me is plotting this information on the Harry Beck style diagram rather than a geographic map. If anyone knows of a vector format tube map I could use to get me started, please let me know.

Maps, the Tube, and RDF headaches

In Imported, Processing, Uncategorized on 28 December 2005 tagged Data, London, Maps, Processing, RDF, Transport, Tube, Visualisation with no comments

Snowbound and carefree, I'm playing around with different methods of presentation for the ubiquitous London Underground (tube) map.

I found RGB versions of the tube line colours over at Rodcorp, so that saved me some bother.

Being the only machine-readable single-file resource I could find, I'm using Jo Walsh's RDF representation of the station locations and connections, a leftover from the sadly defunct MudLondon. I'm not sure yet if it's up to date, or complete, or internally consistent (reason number 1 in an ongoing series of why the semantic web might not be all that it's cooked up to be). Once I fix my doubtlessly buggy RDF parser and check with Jo for any pointers, I'll see if I can do better than this:

At least it's a start. If anyone has suggestions/links for alternative data sources I'd be very grateful - is there an electronic format schematic for the tube available from an official source? Aha - these CSV files from Wikipedia look more promising!

On with some alternative representations of the data - next stop: time to travel.

Stigmergy: Where Are We?

In Imported, Uncategorized, Weblog on 17 November 2004 tagged Embodiment, London, Maps, Photos, Stigmergy, Transport, Tube with no comments

Stigmergy: Where Are We?
Originally uploaded by Just_Tom.