{"id":4813,"date":"2019-04-15T12:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T12:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2019-04-17T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:07:44","slug":"london-underground-overground-by-ken-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=4813","title":{"rendered":"A look at the &#8220;London Underground Overground&#8221; map from Ken Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"489\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2-1024x720.png?resize=696%2C489&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?resize=1024%2C720&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?resize=150%2C106&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?resize=768%2C540&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?resize=100%2C70&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?resize=696%2C490&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?resize=1068%2C751&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?resize=597%2C420&amp;ssl=1 597w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?resize=1920%2C1351&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?w=1953&amp;ssl=1 1953w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield2.png?w=1392 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A week back a person I know called Kenneth Field (a cartographer who works at Esri Inc in Redlands California) published a reworking of the famous London Underground map.  <a href=\"https:\/\/cartonerd.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/another-new-design-for-old-map_8.html\">He has written a full blog post on it here which I recommend you read.<\/a><br>I&#8217;m not really here to critique (others are doing that on twitter*) it but I do think it&#8217;s interesting how much of an impact the &#8216;map&#8217; has had on so many people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"541\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield3-1024x796.png?resize=696%2C541&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield3.png?resize=1024%2C796&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield3.png?resize=150%2C117&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield3.png?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield3.png?resize=768%2C597&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield3.png?resize=696%2C541&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield3.png?resize=1068%2C830&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield3.png?resize=540%2C420&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/underground_by_kenfield3.png?w=1261&amp;ssl=1 1261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m quite please to say I helped him source the 3D building data for his axonometric version.  Quite rightly, I think a desire to connect to the above ground city can help a few people.  I might not know names of everywhere in London but I do know landmarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Now subsequent to Ken&#8217;s post and this one&#8230; a bit of disagreement has emerged from which has spilled out on to twitter starting with a tweet from someone called TubeMapCentral.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hmm. And this from someone who went out of their way not to talk to me in Vienna last week. Tweets are cheap. For the record, I don&#39;t dismiss usability research and I&#39;m open to critique. I agree, the font is too small. Shame you didn&#39;t wish to find out I agree with you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IyZYs0sFyQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/IyZYs0sFyQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Kenneth Field (@kennethfield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kennethfield\/status\/1118158926959091717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The response to what seems a bit of a hostile tweet seems to be Ken&#8217;s latest blog entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/cartonerd.blogspot.com\/2019\/04\/academic-parochialism.html\">Academic parochialism<\/a> which seems to have stirred a &#8216;conversation&#8217; on twitter (to put it lightly)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Field&#39;s opinions about schematic mapping are questionable because he does not have an intellectually defensible, coherent theory of effective design. You can see that from own creation. In fact, I am not even sure he understands what the issues are and why they are important. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jvTNTXeF82\">pic.twitter.com\/jvTNTXeF82<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tube Map Central (@TubeMapCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TubeMapCentral\/status\/1118451466912653312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever your personal opinions on the map itself produced by &#8220;Dr Field&#8221; this all seems a bit too much drama and personality for what is essentially, from my perspective, a fun attempt at redoing a well used London Underground map.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week back a person I know called Kenneth Field (a cartographer who works at Esri Inc in Redlands California) published a reworking of the famous London Underground map. He has written a full blog post on it here which I recommend you read.I&#8217;m not really here to critique (others are doing that on twitter*) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":4805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,249,114,261,307,238,387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-3d","category-arcgispro","category-cartography","category-garsdale-design","category-gd3d","category-london-2","category-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4883,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}