The previous post focused on adding more lines to the network and adding colour to those lines. This time, we’ll add another line, but now the map will better match reality. This will allow us to start finding routes between stations on the network.| P.T.C.
Continuing our deep-dive HOWTO about building Map::Tube maps, we describe the structure of a Map::Tube map file, extend the map for the first tram line, and use a plugin to graph the network.| P.T.C.
Mohammad Sajid Anwar’s post in last year’s Perl Advent Calendar about his Map::Tube module intrigued me. I decided I wanted to build such a map for the tram network in the city where I live: Hannover, Germany. Along the way, I thought it’d be nice to have a detailed HOWTO explaining the steps needed to create a Map::Tube map for one’s city of interest. Since I enjoy explaining things in detail, this got … long. So I broke it up into parts.| P.T.C.
