Update London map

[garykac]

The current London map is unbalanced:

• Westminster is too large (in terms of card (population) count and number of stations. This means that:
  • Customers are likely to arrive there
  • It's easy to avoid other stores there (since you can start in any station)
  • It becomes a "no-brainer" place to play your first move on the map
• There are too many connections in the central part. So it is too easy to route around opponent's stores.

Properly balanced maps are more like Tokyo and Paris, where the dept stores are more centrally located and the high-population (high card count) regions are in the outskirts.

While Westminster is the biggest culprit here, overall the current London borough boundaries are too large for Shinjuku:

• Since we need about 20 regions, that forces the inclusion of boroughs outside the central core
• The large scale forces interesting stations in the central core to be too close together, so some popular stations need to be eliminated.

Being able to zoom in on the central part of London while still having ~20 boroughs will make the map more interesting.

The current boundaries were created in 1963 and resulted in the smaller "metropolitan boroughs" being merged into larger boroughs.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Government_Act_1963

This is a map that shows the previous borough boundaries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_boroughs_of_the_County_of_London