A great tube map that shows how long it should take to get from A to B.
Except for one thing, it’d be so much better if the stations were listed textually as well as geographically and temporally. Why oh why do people always seem to remove simple stuff when making something cool. I
For example, I wanted to select “London Bridge” but because it near so many others I had to take pot luck. Having clicked London Bridge I could see a circle line station outside the 10 minute line but couldn’t tell what it was…
And what if I wanted to know where I could get to in 30 minutes… it’d be nice to be able to set the time chunks wouldn’t it?
The main reason people “remove” stuff is because they’re actually building things from scratch. I started a week ago in my spare time, and now I’m back at work then interface niceties will have to wait. But yes, an index of stations is on the cards.
The other reason is that there’s a separation in functionality between the applet and the web page it sits in. Applets are great at interactive graphics, but they suck at simple text links. Getting the applet to talk to the web page and adding the station links in there should be a quick job actually, hopefully it will help.
Ideally, I’d be plotting contours onto the Harry Beck map that everyone knows, but that will take more work.
Thanks for the comments.
I didn’t mean to lay in to your work. Even with my own work I constantly have a “wouldn’t it be nice if” list on the go.
The textual list doesn’t have to be in the web page, it could be in the applet somehow. This in many ways would make it more portable. Have you thought about it being a mobile app. I used to have a lovely map of the tube on my phone but it expired, the station finder in that was lovely, just an A to Z listing but on a grid… click L… then O.. and you’re there.
Great work, keep it up…
Yeah, equally I didn’t mean to sound so defensive. Sorry about that. I should have said “Thanks for the comments!”
I added a drop-down box which lets you choose which station to centre on, check it out!
I would have had a list of all the stations, but there are 300 or so an it meant the applet was scrolled off the page, or the text was unreadably small
My original intention was to have a feature so you would type the name of the station and it would complete the word when it was unambiguous, and let you know if there were no matches.
Mobile app is of course the holy grail – I might attempt a conversion to mobile Processing at some point.