In February 2024, a series of circular tube maps appeared at a clutch of Circle line stations as part of a promo for some new Samsung phone tech. It was an astute little stunt, but certainly not the ...

In Maxwell Roberts' design of the iconic map, the Tube lines are represented by circles and spokes, rather than the largely straight lines in the original and current versions. Mr Roberts, a ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. “I don’t think that these maps are particularly easy to use,” Roberts told Gothamist, “But they force a city ...

The London Tube map is so iconic we included it in our pick of the best map designs. But is it the right shape? One cartographer thinks it isn't, and he might have a point. Max Roberts' circular Tube ...

Historians have decoded inscriptions on an ancient tablet that is believed to be the oldest surviving map of the world. Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text ...

A university lecturer who created a viral London Underground map has said the original TfL map is ‘really horrible’ and in need of a shake-up. Whether you love it or hate it, there is no denying that ...

Earth is a sphere, so how can it be accurately portrayed on a 2D map? Simply flatten Earth into two pancakes, one depicting the Northern Hemisphere and the other the Southern, with the equator running ...

Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world. Created between 2,600 and 2,900 years ago, the Imago Mundi provided researchers with a unique glimpse ...