http://www.iamcal.com/ All the links rom iamcal.com 2022-05-31T16:34:15Z http://www.iamcal.com/images/logo.gif http://www.iamcal.com/ http://www.iamcal.com/2022-05/mornington-crescent/ <p>A convergence of two of my interests: <a href="https://tuble.co.uk/">Tuble</a> is a Worlde-style game where you guess Tube Stations.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="https://tuble.co.uk/"><img src="/images/blog/tuble.png" width="375" height="333" /></a></p> 2022-05-31T16:34:15Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2017-12/tube-wifi-tracking/ <p>Long time readers will be familiar with my obsession with public transport, specifically the London Underground.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://media.gizmodo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tube-report-hero-620x349.png"><img src="/images/blog/tube-report-hero-620x349.png" width="600" height="337" /></a></p> <p>Gizmodo's <a href="http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/09/london-underground-wifi-tracking-heres-everything-we-learned-from-tfls-official-report/">analysis</a> of Tube wifi tracking data is fascinating - including some of the truly insane paths people have taken between between King's Cross and Waterloo</p> 2017-12-11T23:33:51Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2017-06/cooling-the-tube/ <p>I recently rode the tube (London Underground) during super hot temperatures and the mechanisms to <a href="https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/06/10/cooling-the-tube-engineering-heat-out-of-the-underground/">keep it cool</a> in the face of some complex problems are pretty fascinating.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/06/10/cooling-the-tube-engineering-heat-out-of-the-underground/"><img src="/images/blog/cooling-the-tube-06-600x489.jpg" width="552" height="450" /></a></p> 2017-06-22T22:49:44Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2015-07/axonometric-tube/ <p>Transport for London has released 124 <a href="http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2015/07/12/3d-maps-of-every-underground-station-ab/">axonometric diagrams</a> of underground stations. Looking at stations you've walked through thousands of times is still a little confusing.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/covent-garden.jpg"><img src="/images/blog/covent-garden.jpg" width="600" height="399" /></a></p> 2015-07-17T19:31:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-10/the-circle-line/ <p>One the one hand, it looks terrible. However, London Underground Simulator (Circle Line) is so detailed in all the right ways that I just want to play it. For hours.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><div class="videoWrapper"><iframe width="560" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Th8H6mnM540?rel=0" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div></p> <p>Watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-f6ytD-mlA&amp;feature=channel&amp;list=UL">part 2</a> and then <a href="http://www.amazon.com/London-Underground-Simulator-PC-DVD-ROM/dp/B005CFDBF4/">buy yourself a copy</a>.</p> 2012-10-28T20:48:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2012-09/map-radio/ <p>I was sure I had posted this earlier, but the Yuri Suzuki Tube Map radio is excellent.</p> <p class="bimg"><a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/23445/yuri-suzuki-london-underground-circuit-map-radio.html"><img src="/images/blog/map_04.jpg" width="600" height="428" /></a></p> <p>Particularly like some of the modified station names; Oxford Circuit, Earl's Coil, Clapham Jumper, etc.</p> 2012-09-18T16:36:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2011-06/2688/ <p>interested in transit mapping? then settle in and <a href="http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~mjr/underground/Breaking_the_rules.pdf">read this excellent paper</a></p> 2011-06-26T05:48:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2008-09/1944/ <p>this is cool - someone used the <a href="http://londonbloggers.iamcal.com/">london bloggers directory</a> to create a <a href="http://food.feedreel.co.uk/about/london-blog-search/">london blog search</a>. neat!</p> 2008-09-24T18:20:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2006-06/1204/ <p>this <a href="http://www.kenkil.plus.com/map/">tube map grid morph</a> is pretty cool - now just need to tween to between that and the geo map for some nice dataporn. my zone one efforts are <a href="http://www.iamcal.com/misc/tubesvg/static.svg">here</a> (ff 1.5 only)</p> 2006-06-05T19:52:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/) http://www.iamcal.com/2005-12/1115/ <p>not sure if i linked to these yet - matt pointed me to this <a href="http://www.oskarlin.com/2005/11/29/time-travel/">lovely piece of mapping work</a>, showing the tube map based on time between stations.</p> 2005-12-21T03:17:00Z Cal Henderson (http://www.iamcal.com/)