Here’s a fun thing that we found out about yesterday … make your own custom tube map based upon your friends, using Facebook.
Hop over to the Underground Mapper website, where if you login using your Facebook account it looks at your list of friends and works out how they’re connected and who knows who – and then you get your own personalised tube map, with all your friends listed as stations on it.
Underground Mapper
David Johnston who created the site got the idea when he realised that people at his work always got moved around on various projects, and always wondered how a map might look if everyone was assigned a station like a tube map, if each line were a project.
Analysing someone’s Facebook data was something that was quite easy to do via the Facebook API, which can be accessed and the data pulled for making a map, once a user has given their permission.
David says that people are quite often surprised about some of the connections between their friends that the map reveals.
For a small fee, they’ll even make you a large poster sized version which they’ll send to you. Perfect gift idea? Or just one for the tube geeks!? Follow them at @ugmapper for more.