Post by thirstquensher on Dec 15, 2010 23:12:09 GMT
When crossing the footbridge at Stratford tonight I noticed these new poster frames adjacent to Platform 3A:
www.flickr.com/photos/92438714@N00/5264862200/
In particular I found this little piece interesting - a "Platform finder" including a 'mini-map'. I'm not sure how much clearer this makes anything (not much to me really), but it's an interesting use of a 'map snippet', the only other example I can think of being the Northern/Victoria ones at Euston:
www.flickr.com/photos/92438714@N00/5264251663/in/photostream/
I think the problem with it is that people don't navigate their way around Tube/DLR stations by platform number. They navigate them via wayfinding arrows. This map has no geographical basis, making it no easier to see where the platforms with the marked numbers actually are. Only that would make it in any way useful. In joining different stations up on maps, geography doesn't matter, but when using the same style to indicate the location of platforms within the *same* station, it does.
Also - note that the London Overground indication doesn't state "Richmond/Clapham Junction via Willesden Junction" - it shows no destinations at all - so people who don't already know to take the London Overground wouldn't know to choose it anyway.
Without looking close up aswell, it seems to imply the line to Stansted Airport is an extension of the Jubilee!
Other slight niggle - the DLR Platform 4 spot is in LU blue, whereas the 16/17 spots are in DLR turquoise! (The LO platform spots are in blue aswell, not orange, so why are 16/17 any different?)
www.flickr.com/photos/92438714@N00/5264862200/
In particular I found this little piece interesting - a "Platform finder" including a 'mini-map'. I'm not sure how much clearer this makes anything (not much to me really), but it's an interesting use of a 'map snippet', the only other example I can think of being the Northern/Victoria ones at Euston:
www.flickr.com/photos/92438714@N00/5264251663/in/photostream/
I think the problem with it is that people don't navigate their way around Tube/DLR stations by platform number. They navigate them via wayfinding arrows. This map has no geographical basis, making it no easier to see where the platforms with the marked numbers actually are. Only that would make it in any way useful. In joining different stations up on maps, geography doesn't matter, but when using the same style to indicate the location of platforms within the *same* station, it does.
Also - note that the London Overground indication doesn't state "Richmond/Clapham Junction via Willesden Junction" - it shows no destinations at all - so people who don't already know to take the London Overground wouldn't know to choose it anyway.
Without looking close up aswell, it seems to imply the line to Stansted Airport is an extension of the Jubilee!
Other slight niggle - the DLR Platform 4 spot is in LU blue, whereas the 16/17 spots are in DLR turquoise! (The LO platform spots are in blue aswell, not orange, so why are 16/17 any different?)
