iPod Tube Map

London Underground Map

If you can't afford a chauffeur and you want to travel in London, you will more than likely make use of the London Underground. Thanks to Harry Beck you can easily find out where you want to go.

In 1931 Harry was unemployed but that didn't stop him creating the London Underground Map. It ditched scale and confusion for clarity and ease of use, drawn more like an electronic diagram than a map, it made it easy for anybody to find their way underground.

It took Mr. Beck two years to persuade a reluctant London Underground to publish the map, when they finally did it quickly became a hit with the public, and became a design icon for other Tube and Subway networks to copy.

It has only been comparatively recently that Mr Becks acheivement has been finally recognised by the London Underground, when they erected a plaque in his honour at Finchley Central Tube Station and a Beck Gallery in the London Transport Museum.

iPod Underground and Tube Maps

In 2004 I had the idea of making a text version of the underground map, so that people could download it on to their iPods. I gave up about half way through compiling the project. Now that we have iPods that can display pictures, an iPod Tube map is now made possible again and alot easier to use than my text version. Thanks to iSubwaymaps.com you can now download a London Underground Tube Map onto your iPod (requires a iPod Video or Photo iPod). They have many different iPod compatible Tube and Subway maps available. So if you are in Tokyo, Melbourne, San Francisco or anywhere else check out their fantastic free iPod Map downloads.