Posts Tagged ‘World Tube Map’

World Tube Map 2050 Simplified

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Here’s the latest update for the World Tube Map idea, which I’m working on as part of the overall Zug42 concept. Zug 42 is a separate website set for launch early in 2010, which examines the relationship between people, places and ideas. Essentially, through a process I am calling ‘Geomental mapping’, simple ‘tube map’ like diagrams can be drawn to link any place to any person, and therefore to any idea, as the three are always inter-connected. As a result of making these links, it is possible to understand how anything is created, and also to develop a process for creating just about anything too!

World Tube Map latest

World Tube Map latest

Now, back to the World Tube Map – since the last version put up in November, I have slimmed the whole thing down massively, so it now just features 14 potential ‘inter-continental’ lines, with about 10 cities on each. Over the coming months, I’ll start to make a commentary on the obstacles which each of these routes might face, together with how they relate to existing routes. In the meantime, comments and questions are always welcome

World Tube Map Latest

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Well, this is the latest ‘WTM for WTM’ (World Tube Map in time for World Travel Market) – I’ve had to cut & shut certain sections together, but I hope the concept is now a lot clearer than it was in the first draft.

Here’s a snip of the detail – the whole image at the moment is poster sized (2800 pixels wide). I will be slimming it down to a postcard / web version shortly – but the full version can still be printed and read (just) at A4.

Enlargement of small section of World Tube Map

Enlargement of small section of World Tube Map

Obviously, there’s quite a bit to explain about how the map got to its current stage, and again I will try to do that later. I just promised myself I’d get something up before heading down to World Travel Market. The key point about the map is that it is a way of viewing the world ‘as it could be’ – taking the idea of the ‘global village’ into the middle of this century, and showing how everywhere could be linked together – both physically by a high speed train / maglev network and metaphorically through cultural or commercial connections.

Updated 29/11/09

Here’s a very simple tube map for London tourists, which I like a lot!

The Guardian’s Jonathan Glancey has an interesting article about the challenges of keeping the London tube map clean, now that the Oyster card system will be extended to trains & river services. It really is time I volunteered my services!