Getting around London is a chore at the best of times – even a supposed 10-minute journey can take an hour - and not knowing where you are can easily turn into chaos. Hence the reason the first thing people do when they hit the ‘Big Smoke’ is to get a good guide map.
London Tube Map for 5th Edition S60 devices is a free app that offers exactly that. We thought we’d best check it out
London Tube Map for 5th Edition S60 phones, such as the Nokia 5800 and the soon-to-be-here Nokia N97, is a free download and interactive map from Pixels Beat Paper. The company also offers free metro maps for Paris, New York and Tokyo.
It’s a quick install that sets up a widget in your apps screen. The map itself is highly draggable but you won’t find any Points of Interest or great interactive elements to it.
The beauty of this map, though, is that you don’t need a connection to get a GPS bearing. After all, there is no signal on the London Underground so you wouldn’t be able to use GPS anyway. In many ways, it's a PDF that you can move about at the touch of your finger.
Weirdly, for an app designed with S60 5th Edition devices in mind, when you switch from Portrait to Landscape mode, you’ll find that the map doesn’t change perspective, which we hoped it would. Getting as wide a view of the Tube map as possible always makes life easier.
It’s not particularly interactive, as it doesn’t give you Points of Interest but then it’s merely about getting you from A to B. In many respects this app is a work in progress as there are route planning features.
As a guide to getting you about the city, London Tube Map is certainly better than carrying a paper map and it is something we can see ourselves using for the foreseeable future.
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