Editing Tube map (section)

===Early maps===
As London's early transport system was operated by a variety of independent companies, there were no complete maps of the network, just for the individual companies' routes. The maps were not typically schematic and were simply the line overlaid on a regular [[city map]]. There was no integration of the companies' services or any co-operation in advertising.

In 1907, ''[[The Evening News (London newspaper)|The Evening News]]'' commissioned a pocket map, The Evening News London "Tube Map". It was the first map to show all of the lines with equal weight being given to each line, and it was the first map to use a different colour for each line.<ref name="1907 color-for-lines map">[http://bryarsandbryars.co.uk/colouring-inside-lines-2/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118223937/http://bryarsandbryars.co.uk/colouring-inside-lines-2/|date=18 November 2016}} from </ref>

Another early combined map was published in 1908 by the [[Underground Electric Railways Company of London]] (UERL) in conjunction with four other underground railway companies that used the "Underground" brand as part of a common advertising factor.<ref name=Lost_Tubes_12>{{cite book |last=Badsey-Ellis |first=Antony |title=London's Lost Tube Schemes |year=2005 |publisher=Capital Transport |isbn=1-85414-293-3 |pages=282–283}}</ref>

[[File:Tube map 1908-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Map of Underground lines, 1908]]
The map showed eight routes&nbsp;– four operated by the UERL and one from each of the other four companies:
* '''UERL lines''':
** [[Baker Street and Waterloo Railway|Bakerloo Railway]]&nbsp;– brown
** [[Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway|Hampstead Railway]]&nbsp;– indigo
** [[Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway|Piccadilly Railway]]&nbsp;– yellow
** [[District Railway]]&nbsp;– green
* '''Other lines''':
** [[Central London Railway]]&nbsp;– blue
** [[City and South London Railway]]&nbsp;– black
** [[Northern City Line|Great Northern and City Railway]]&nbsp;– orange
** [[Metropolitan Railway]]&nbsp;– red

A geographical map presented restrictions since for sufficient clarity of detail in the crowded central area of the map required the extremities of the District and Metropolitan lines to be omitted and so a full network diagram was not provided. The problem of truncation remained for nearly half a century. Although all of the western branches of the District and Piccadilly lines were included for the first time in 1933 with [[Harry Beck]]'s first proper Tube map, the portion of the [[Metropolitan line]] beyond {{lus|Rickmansworth}} did not appear until 1938, and the eastern end of the [[District line]] did not appear until the mid-1950s.

The route map continued to be developed and was issued in various formats and artistic styles until 1920, when, for the first time, the geographic background detail was omitted in a map designed by [[MacDonald Gill]].<ref name="1920 map">[http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1920.html 1920 map] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207141711/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.billson/tubemaps/1920.html |date=7 February 2009 }} from {{cite web |title=A History of the London Tube Maps |url=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clivebillson/tube/tube.html |access-date=7 February 2009 |archive-date=15 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070815041850/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clivebillson/tube/tube.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> That freed the design to enable greater flexibility in the positioning of lines and stations. The routes became more stylised but the arrangement remained, largely, geographic in nature. The 1932 edition was the last geographic map to be published before Beck's diagrammatic map was introduced.