Mark Noad (a designer) has redrawn the Tube map so that it shows the routes and distances between stations more accurately.
He has posted the map online and plans to launch an iPhone app in the coming days.
"The traditional map is based on one created by Harry Beck in 1931 and has become a design classic.
Mr Noad called the original ‘a brilliant piece of information design’ but said it needed an update.
He said: ‘I doubt if Beck would want to put his name to the current version. If he were to start from scratch today would he have used the same approach?
‘There are twice as many lines with London Overground and the DLR. When Beck was drawing up his map, the Circle line was the focus but that has now moved away and you have places such as Canary Wharf. This is not intended as a replacement to the official version – it is simply another way to look at it.’"
Click here to view the map in more detail
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