We’re going to be putting upa new map at the end of the week, which will satisfy a long running aim of getting all routes onto one screen / sheet of paper. The starting point is the network maps which are more commonly used by rail companies, and we’ve borrowed a few ideas from Harry Beck’s classic tube map, and then added in a fair few ingredients of our own.
A map like this will have to start off as a static file - there’s too much to change to make it interactive between different airports, so we’ve concentrated on showing all routes from London. This isn’t a huge amount of use on its own, as a basic ’spider’ network could do that quite simply, so we’re putting in distinctions between different destinations, onward connections by air, and alternative journeys by rail or even sea in a few cases.
I think the result will get in as much information as we can without being too busy, but would appreciate any feedback or twitter comments:
Click on maps for larger view - best zoomed to about 200%
This has developed from a simpler version developed last week, which we’ll probably roll out first across all airports:
(C) 2009 James Avery
