Cartographia
Imagine if London’s cartography was based on its tube map - #map
…if the map of London were drawn up based on the schematic map of the city’s underground train system, this is how it would look.

The geographical structure of transportation networks are often reshaped to provide users with more understandable transit maps. These distortions have a major influence on people’s perception of a city’s geography, to the point they get stored mentally and become the collective representation of the real world’s geography.
Information captured from http://www.disassociated.com/2012/02/28/imagine-if-londons-cartography-was-based-on-its-tube-map/

Imagine if London’s cartography was based on its tube map - #map

…if the map of London were drawn up based on the schematic map of the city’s underground train system, this is how it would look.

The geographical structure of transportation networks are often reshaped to provide users with more understandable transit maps. These distortions have a major influence on people’s perception of a city’s geography, to the point they get stored mentally and become the collective representation of the real world’s geography.

Information captured from http://www.disassociated.com/2012/02/28/imagine-if-londons-cartography-was-based-on-its-tube-map/

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