Map that accurately represents direction but not distance?

at Oakwood the trains on both lines are heading west.

The Tube map is a diagram of lines and can't reflect the correct direction all the time.

The need to fit station names on the map wold make it impossible to do what you want in such a small space.

The aim is not to reflect the terminology of the lines but real geography, so King's Cross would be shown as east of Euston, Warren Street south, Mornington Crescent and Camden Town north. This is not an example of where the current tube map is bad for this use. However it does for example show Beckton as southeast of Cyprus when it is actually north, and Euston Square as south rather than west of Euston.

Pity this one hasn't been updated.
www.london-tubemap.com/pdfs/London-tubemap_1.4.pdf

That's based on platform/line designations. What I'm looking for is a map that shows the correct relative geographical position of stations, ignoring how lines are described.

That doesn't fulfil the compact requirement. It's only direction between adjacent stations that is desired accurate, accurate distance is not required.

Oh My Goodness. What a bewildering visual mess!

This is very hard to look at and it has so many squiggly lines that it should carry a health warning!

Simon

Chris - for your girlfriend so that she knows which way up is Oakwood and for anyone else who has never seen the "London" map - att is the small relevant bit

Reminded of that horrible brown-face thing from The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery. "The up train is on the down line and the down train is on the up line".

Can we just refer to up lines and down lines? Although... how does that work at Oxford Circus?

Staff with intranet access look at WebGIS this shows a accurate map of the tube map.

LT maps used to be based on Ordnance Survey maps.

In the 1980s they tried to impose a cost per copy and with print runs of millions the cost was unaffordable. LT did their own survey and later maps were based on this.

Mike Harris' bus maps still show the Tube lines

I hadn't actually realised he wasn't. Frankie Howerd blacked up in that film too.

White actors playing Indian parts was not exactly uncommon in that era - both Michael Bates (It ain't half hot mum*)" and Spike Milligan (various, including a memorable episode in "Till Death us Do Part") were born in India during the colonial era and could not only speak English in convincing local accents but spoke fluent Hindi (a talent Milligan and Peter Sellers - who was posted to India in WW2 - put to use in the Goon Show to slip rude Hindi words in that the censors wouldn't detect but various retired memsahibs listening definitely did!)

(*Conversely, Bahar Batti, who played Bates's Indian colleague in IAHHM, was born in Finchley)

"Train Robbery" is of its time of course - fifty years ago - but there is another racial stereotype early in the film which again would be unlikely to be accepted now, when the new site of the school is announced and a forest of "For sale" boards go up in the local streets, and an unfeasibly large number of people of south Asian appearance are seen leaving one house.

It's certainly a Peter Sellers rip-off, but he does it very well, so all credit to him. When I first saw it, I thought it was Sellers!
I hope I never get to the point where I cringe at the sight of actors wearing make-up. It's so much a part of, well, acting.

Chris, I don't think it feasible to show frequent changes of direction in a line as it crosses the diagram. Would it solve your "problem" if each stretch of line had an arrow (or two) alongside with the appropriate label "NB", "EB", "SB" or "WB"? Yes, I know it might not be neat, just wondering about the general idea.