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by wereHamster 4009 days ago
> Nobody would think "Wait, why is the tube turning North? We're supposed to go East!".

I need to go to the tower of london. It is east of my current location, I know because I looked at a tourist map. According to this tube map though the line towards the tower of london stop goes north. Wait, that's not right. Am I going to the right station? Should I be taking another line? Is there maybe a different station that is closer to the tower? Maybe I should take one of the lines that go straight east. Hm. I'm confused. This tube map is confusing. It doesn't match the tourist map that I'm holding in my hand.

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I need to go to the Tower of London. This tourist map tells me I need to go to Tower Hill station. I'm currently at X, which means I need Y line, it's 4 stops away. I have no idea how long it's going to take to travel those stops. And I don't know how far I'm going to travel.
Who gets confused by that? It's obviously just a diagram, not a real 'map'. Of course it's not going to look the same as a geographical map.