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I've just been looking around for London tube and/or street maps. One likely candidate is from Visual IT (www.visualit.co.uk). For £30.60 you get an interactive tube map and A-Z maps covering quite a large area. Has anyone any experience of these products (Tube London and Tube London Streets)? Are they any good? Any alternatives I should be looking at?
(I know I can, in theory, access maps on-line at tube.tfl.gov.uk and streetmap.co.uk but I was looking for something that wouldn't require me to go on-line.)
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Posted: 2003-12-31 14:00:43
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I use these on my ipaq frequently and can recommend them
Also take a look
here for previous posts about Tbe London
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Posted: 2003-12-31 14:07:52
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Thanks. That's all I needed to hear. Have now bought/installed it. Looks good (although it's a shame the street search only searches within the current section of the map).
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Posted: 2003-12-31 16:29:07
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I found the product frankly disappointing.
Tube's data set is basically a bunch of bitmaps. There is little difference between using Tube and using a paper map. You get a big graphic image that you can scroll around and zoom and and out on, and you get a list of street names and locations like the index of an A-Z. And of course the total lack of any connection between individual tiles of the street map is a major weakness.
What you want on a device like this isn't simply electronic paper. You want data in a form amenable to much more sophisticated forms of processing and display. What you want, basically, is the Falk city guide.
Falk's user interface is awful (any developer who implements his *own* on-screen keyboard for a UIQ app needs to be slapped around a bit) and the data set is limited to Central London, but within those limitations it is a vastly superior product.
Where Tube's data set is a picture, Falk's is a description: the Falk database contains raw data on the location of every street, building, etc. It draws maps based upon this data and redraws when you zoom in or out, so it can intelligently leave out "B" roads at far-out zoom levels. It includes address data so you can search by house number and it can even generate travel routes between two points.
The perfect product doesn't exist yet, but the Falk city guide is as close as anyone has gotten. As long as I'm not going west of Battersea Bridge it's the one that gets my nod.
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Posted: 2003-12-31 17:20:37
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Also, the Tube street map never loads on my P900 - it seems to need more memory than actually exists. I got it working ONCE and never since.
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Posted: 2003-12-31 19:35:59
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yeah darn that pesky street map!
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Posted: 2004-03-17 12:56:25
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Arent programs like Tube London etc nothing but collated Jpg and bitmap images?? Seems a bit expensive if they have no real interaction.
I simply scanned a large pic of the tube map and store it as an image...Suits me fine!
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Posted: 2004-03-17 15:37:46
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if Tube on Px00 works like the one I have on my iPAQ (both from the same company - VisualIT) then it will show your the route it is suggesting while scrolling the map in all direction, pausing at each station so you can see where you are going.
you can also use the find function to find where a station is and it shows you the location on the tube map
on the iPAQ I also have Sydney Tube and Ferries and find it a very handy tool
I don't use the street map even on the ipaq. just too big. I use Microsoft Pocketstreets for that
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Posted: 2004-03-17 15:48:06
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