The London Underground map has probably prompted more pastiches, tributes and piss-takes than any inanimate object in history. We've rounded up as many as we can find. The wonderful Geofftech did something similar a few years back, but the field has since moved on into three dimensions and realtime mashups.
Note that the Tube Map is a copyrighted image and reproductions (doctored or otherwise) should not be published without permission from TfL. Many glorious efforts have long vanished from the web because of this.
- 3-D Tube map
- 3-D Tube map (with moving trains)
- 3-D Tube map (schematic, rotatable)
- 3-D Station maps
- Accessible Tube Map (unofficial)
- Accessible Tube Map (official...PDF)
- Anagrams (station names rearranged)
- Biblical Tube map
- Brighton link (and other manipulations)
- Chromatic (beautiful circle of overlapping line colours)
- Coffee shops
- Curvy
- Curvier
- Curvier still
- Daily Mail's moral underground
- Distance between stations (as warped grid)
- District Line hand-drawn map (from our ongoing series)
- Doctor Who (each line represents a different doctor)
- Fashion (station names painfully replaced by famous fashion brands)
- Fictional (non-existent stations from film / TV / other)
- Flooded (map showing potential effects of sea level rises by 2100)
- Football (station names changed to footballers/teams)
- Galaxy (pastiche Tube map showing our galaxy's salient features)
- Geographic (the stations in almost the right places)
- Geographic (an even slicker alternative to the above...PDF)
- German (station names translated)
- Ghost Stations (closed underground stations)
- Google Doodle (celebrating the Underground's 150th birthday)
- The Great Bear (original alt.Tube map by artist Simon Patterson)
- Historic (scans of official Tube maps dating back to 1908)
- How to Take Your Appendix Out On The Piccadilly Line (Monty Python silliness from 1974)
- Lampshade (novelty furniture)
- Large print (official)
- Latin America (map of the region in the style of a Tube map, PDF)
- LEGO (official, celebrating 150 years of the network in 2013)
- Life Expectancy (by Tube station)
- Lord of the Rings (pastiche showing Middle Earth Locations, here in T-shirt form)
- Memory (Londoners asked to draw network from memory)
- Morphing (map morphs to an old Harry Beck version, then a geographic map)
- Musical Tube (musicians and groups from Sony)
- Novelty Tube Journeys (pastiche showing connected ideas as Tube lines)
- Olympic Superstars (official TfL map with station names replaced by athletes)
- Olympic venues
- Realtime (mashup of current Tube train locations on Google map)
- Realtime (as above, but on a standard Tube map)
- Restaurants
- Small theatres (official map via Transport for London)
- Science (pastiche map listing important scientists)
- Super Mario Tube (in the style of the video game Mario 3)
- Synaesthesia map
- Toilets at stations (official)
- Travel times between stations (map warps depending on your station)
- Twin Tubes (showing sidings, depots and both directions)
- Uncluttered (our own minimalist Tube map)
- Underground (how much of the Tube is actually underground?)
- Upside-down (PDF; suddenly south London has far more stations)
- US Interstates (influenced by Tube map)
- US Numbered Highways (influenced by Tube map)
- Victoria Line slander (station names changed to reflect station character)
- Walking (dotted lines show stations that are closer by foot than by Tube)
- Walking (PDF; another version showing walking distances between stations)
- Walking (and a third variant)
- Waterways (with embedded sound files)
We're bound to have missed a few. Please suggest additions in the comments below.
