Map Legibility vs. Accuracy

It’s coincidental that Shawn just posted in the comments of the post below that he found the distances between Tube stops on the London Underground misleading.

Coincidental because I was browsing through the archives on Edward Tufte‘s website today, and found the comparison between the standard Tube map (a beautiful, useable document) and a map that charts where the Tube stations actually are, rather interesting:

Tube Map
Geographically-accurate Tube Map

Perhaps one should carry both maps with them (and of course, an A to Z) on their journeys.