roomthily: Metrography (Benedikt Groß, Bertrand Clerc) - the topography of London distorted to fit Harry Beck’s Underground We all know that the Tube Map takes some serious liberties with London’s geography to create its distinctive rectilinear diagrammatic look - but just how much? This interactive, zooming, scrolling map shows you. Amazing.

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Metrography (Benedikt Groß, Bertrand Clerc) - the topography of London distorted to fit Harry Beck’s Underground

We all know that the Tube Map takes some serious liberties with London’s geography to create its distinctive rectilinear diagrammatic look - but just how much? This interactive, zooming, scrolling map shows you. Amazing.

  1. 8th February 2012
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