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What fraction of possible Wikipedia readers are 'most people'? Six words of definition, so that readers needn't click 'London Underground' to find out what it is, are not excessive. |
Let's at least make it a bit less pointlessly wordy, then? Most people REALLY know that London's the capital of the UK. |
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'''Tube map''' is the commonly used name for the schematic diagram that represents the lines, stations, and zones of
A [[schematic diagram]] rather than a map, it represents not geography but relations; it considerably distorts the actual relative positions of the stations, but accurately respresents their sequential and connective relations with other stations along the various lines of the system as well as their placement within its zones. The basic design concepts, especially that of mapping [[topology|topologically]] rather than geographically, have been widely adopted for other route maps around the world.
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