User:Dominic Sayers/TubeMap
Royalty-free London Underground diagram
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I have done some initial work on a diagram of the London Underground system. I hope it is sufficiently different from the copyrighted TfL map that it will be able to be released on a royalty-free basis.
There are a number of Wikipedia pages that use snippets of the official map (on a fair-use basis I presume). I hope my royalty-free version could be used in it's entirety as a jump-off page for London Underground entries.
I am aware that the National Rail logo used in the current version is (c) National Rail. I will change it as soon as I can.
The diagram at the moment covers only Zone 1. I hope that Wikipedians may be sufficiently interested in this concept to help me out by adding the remainder of the system to the diagram. I started this project using Microsoft Visio. I am happy to upload the .vsd file as a basis for others' work.
Transport for London copyright policy
[edit]Here are some links (working in August 2005) that demonstrate TfL's copyright policy:
Copyright statement from the tube map download page
Policy summary in a press release format (published in the Metro)
How to use and protect the intellectual property rights of Transport for London (PDF document from the TfL web site)
In summary, TfL will not allow commercial use of the map without their express written permission. Using their map in a Wikimedia project would be against Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons policy.