New Happy Birthday London Underground

Today is the 150th birthday of the London Underground. It hence seems similar an appropriate twenty-four sixty minutes stream to convey a lilliputian expect at some of the Google Map based applications that convey been inspired yesteryear the London Underground together with Harry Beck's iconic London Underground Tube Map.


The boffins over at CASA decided to re-imagine the metro map for the 21st Century. They came upward amongst this 3d Underground Map that includes 3d buildings of famous London landmarks.

The map is simply a unproblematic icon map but it is withal an attractive redesign. I imagine the map tiles for the icon map were created amongst CASA's ain Google Maps icon cutter tool.


The London Bloggers website is a directory of blogs written inward together with unopen to London. The site includes a clever Google Maps interface to access the listed blogs yesteryear location.

The map uses the Google Maps API amongst the iconic London Underground map. If you lot click on whatever of the stations on the map you lot tin persuasion a listing of bloggers who are based nearby. It is also possible to browse the over 4,000 blogs listed yesteryear private undercover line.


Of cast Harry Beck's metro map has inspired lots of designers to arrive at creative redesigns of the London Underground map. In fact in that place are far also many to holler them all. One of my personal favourites is the Under Skin Map, which is a bully human torso map inward the straight off familiar Harry Beck style.

If you lot are a fan of these Harry Beck means Underground maps so you lot should also cheque out The Guardian's slide-show of 14 Alternative Tube Maps
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