Who doesn’t love a good metro map/diagram? Surely not our community of Maps in the Wild lovers? This is the Washington Metro Map which was very useful for getting to the National Air and Space Museum which has featured a lot over the last couple of weeks
An incomplete sketch by Harry Beck, the designer of the iconic London Underground map. The hastily drawn sketch focuses on Southwest London as it intends to show a proposed new layout for the District Line branch to Richmond.Much of the map is composed of crude pencil sketches, but the relevant […]
This unique manuscript sketch by Harry Beck, the designer of the iconic London Tube Map, shows an early attempt to add the Victoria Line (still under construction at the time) to his Underground diagram. His elegant and ingenious proposal introduces the Victoria line as a clean diagonal running from northeast […]
To Celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day, what better map than Paris, the city of Love, with two lovers? Painting on an old-school map by C215
We went to see the exhibition of Tube Diagrams featuring some very early sketches by Harry Beck at the Map House in Knightsbridge (very, very pricey). Victoria Line at Kings Cross and Euston Four unique sketches in Harry Beck’s hand showing different ways to depict the area around Kings Cross […]
Using Satellites for SpyingGRAB (Galactic Radiation and Background) Satellite GroundStation Contact Map, 1960 GRAB was the first electronic spy satellite; it picked up radio communications from Cold War adversaries. Ground operators used this map to tell when the satellite was overhead. That’s when they could download intercepted intelligence. This is […]