I made an animated visualization of the light rail infrastructure of San Francisco from 1850–to–nowish. I was wondering if you would be interested in posting!

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I sure would be, Travis! This is a great 15-minute video that succinctly outlines the rise and fall of rail-based street transit in San Francisco, Oakland and even Marin County. The sheer number of competing companies in the early years is quite staggering! The impact of the Great Earthquake is covered, and there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s even a look at a couple of “alternate future” San Franciscos – one dominated by all the freeways that were once planned, and another where much of the rail infrastructure had been kept. Nicely animated and clearly narrated, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s well worth a look to get an overview of transit history in the Bay Area.

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🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Travis Emick/YouTube

Hello Cameron! Last week my WiFi was out so I was disrupted from my usual cartographic routine and decided try something outside the box. What I ended up coming up with was this cartogram showing travel time between light rail stations in the Twin Cities. I always find it to be a creature comfort 🔸澳洲开奖 澳洲10开官网开奖 tell me travel time between stations, and it can really highlight some advantages (or disadvantages) of a system. It was a fun little endeavor and I wanted to share it!

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This is a sweet little visualization that almost seems willfully minimalist, even down to the choice of a “typewriter” font for the station labels. An unconventional choice, but I think it works given the immediacy and simplicity of the graphic. I have to admit that I never really know whether or not I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m meant to count the station dot as a “minute” with this type of graphic, although it probably doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t matter too much one way or the other if you account for the dwell time at each station.

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A few years back I made a quick sketch for my friend showing the relationships between Pixies and Throwing Muses and their associated bands. For her recent birthday I made this subway map version for her, because, of course I did. Who doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t want a subway map for their birthday?

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Any resemblance to my mid-1990s CD collection is entirely coincidental, I assure you!

I like this, Brian – the subway map design metaphor is appropriately employed for once, but you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve also given a nice designery pop-art feel to the piece as well. I particularly like the interplay between the warm “Pixies” and cool “Throwing Muses” colours across the map, and the interconnected “engagement” rings for Kristen Hersh and Fred Abong are a really nice touch as well.

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m off to listen to Surfer Rosa🔸澳洲幸运10预测 now, I think.

Originally, the current Link light rail spine was going to be renamed as the Red Line, with future lines gaining new colours as they came online. However, the local community was quick to point out the similarity of that name to the racist practice of redlining🔸澳洲幸运10预测, where people of col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划were denied loans or insurance, defining where in a city they could live. Though Sound Transit acknowledges that there are many other Red Lines around the world, they also chose to act decisively and change their plans at this early stage.

So now we have five Link lines – f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划of which will be numbered as the main network, while the separate Tacoma Link streetcar will be the “T Line”. The Stride network will get an “S” prefix before their numbers, and the Sounder lines will become the “N Line” and “S Line” after the directions trains travel out of Seattle. To show off this new system, Sound Transit has made this nifty little animated GIF showing how the network will change over time as each new component comes on line. Neat!

The colours actually work well 🔸澳洲开奖 placed together on the map, and Sound Transit says that though has gone into making them user-friendly for colour-blind readers, which is good to hear. The other thing to note is that there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s still 21 years to go until the system is built out fully, which is like FOREVER.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Sound Transit blog

Designed by Joseph Stummer, these pages chart the history of the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn from its foundation in 1838 through to 1853. Each lithographic plate documents two years in astounding detail, with data shown for just about every aspect of the railway: the number of locomotives and cars of different types, revenue sources, freight carried (coal, salt, tobacco, grain, and cattle), dividends paid to shareholders and more. Injections of capital are shown as gold spilling from a cornucopia, while the beautifully drawn engines and carriages at the top of each page represent the latest rolling stock for the years shown. Even the sky behind the trains has meaning: bright sunshine represents financial success, while dark clouds indicate a downturn in the company🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s fortunes. All in all, some 18 separate statistics are tracked for each year.

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🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: David Rumsey Map Collection

Here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s an interesting little infographic (clearly based off the official Translink map) that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s making the rounds on Reddit/Twitter/etc. at the moment, showing average weekday ridership on rapid transit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Created by u/Mobius_Peverell on Reddit with “Excel, GIMP, and two afternoons” (in their own words), it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s quite a striking graphic. It definitely shows the dominance of the SkyTrain, and the Canada Line in particular. However, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s important to note that the 99 B-Line, running from UBC to Commercial-Broadway, is in fact the busiest bus route in either Canada or the United States, with an average weekday ridership of over 56,000 passengers – it just looks small in comparison to the even busier SkyTrain lines.

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Compare to this 1954 flow diagram of subway lines in Manhattan, where all the data is shown directly on the map.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: r/vancouver on Reddit

The striking time bands – a form of isochrone – are rendered in bold alternating concentric “target” circles around the city itself, represented by a modernist “F” logo. For the most part, the cities seem to placed along correct headings relative to Frankfurt, although the time scale means that actual distances aren🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t necessarily conveyed accurately. Poor old Lisbon takes some 72 hours to get to, far more than even distant Moscow or Odessa!

The map is from a publication produced by the City of Frankfurt entitled Frankfurt-on-Main: Economic Facts and Statistics🔸澳洲幸运10预测, almost certainly produced to entice foreign (English?) economic investment in the city.

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🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: @chaosforscherin/Twitter (account no longer active), with a H/T to Taras Grescoe

It was my task to take this rough mockup and develop a design language that could be scaled from a single short trade route all the way up to a global network map, all while remaining simple and legible enough to work within the confines of a PowerPoint slide. Adding to the challenge was the fact the company completely rebranded themselves about a month into the project, which meant that I suddenly had to work with an entirely different col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划palette. The list of ports that each route called at also changed a few times, and there were a lot of back and forth revisions to make all the stakeholders happy.

The map above shows all the possible trade routes from Europe to the Americas, and was the map that I used to develop the look and feel of the entire series, setting up all the design rules for every map. As a result, it went through the most iterations – this final map is the 12th version🔸澳洲幸运10预测 – but it was definitely worth the effort. Earlier versions also included numbers between the ports that indicated the average number of days it took to sail between them, but this was deemed unworkable after a couple of rounds of revisions.

Likewise, transshipment routes – incoming routes to the major “hub” ports, often via third parties – were originally shown in detail as secondary “feeder lines”, but this gradually morphed into the simpler approach of the final map. As you may have noticed, this approach owes a lot to London Underground line maps, which denote interchanges with other lines in a similar way. Like most transit strip maps, the reading logic flows from left to right, regardless of actual geography (America is west🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of Europe, after all). Directional arrows reinforce this for users less familiar with the concept. This reading logic holds true for all 13 of the final trade-level routes, with a few necessary exceptions. In these instances, further directional arrows guide the user (see the below Europe–Oceania trade map, where the two routes travel through the Australian ports in opposite directions).

After the trade level maps, I developed f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划“continent” maps, which focused on showing simplified “collapsed” versions of the trade routes within Europe, the Americas, Asia and Oceania. Examples showing Europe and Asia are below.

Finally, I pieced together a global trade map from the f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划continent maps. Fortunately, I did this after🔸澳洲幸运10预测 everything else had been approved, so I only had to rework this one once!

Feedback from the client has been overwhelmingly positive, both within the company and from their external clients who have seen and used the maps. From my point of view, I feel extremely fortunate that I got to work with a client who had a great idea of what he wanted, but also was very receptive to my thoughts and concepts. He has this to say about my work:

“From the initial idea until delivery, Cameron showed a great sense for what is really required to get the visualization of 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划products done in the best possible way. While deep-diving into 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划products, he always maintained an overview of the big picture and what is required to make the final delivery as great as it is today.”

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The slideshow above allows you to compare years by clicking on the dots below the map. The slideshow doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t automatically advance, so you can take y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划time looking at each one. Flip back and forth between two different years if you want!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Some notes:

• The 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划map reflects the services as advertised in Amtrak🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s inaugural timetable booklet from May, 1971. As the timetable had to be prepared, printed and distributed in advance of opening day, it doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t reflect the fact that some railroads – notably, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) and the Southern Railway (SOU) – decided at the eleventh h🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划to not join the new national rail corporation. As a result, some of the lines didn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t operate as shown on this map 🔸澳洲开奖 Amtrak commenced service. In some cases, it took several years before these routes came under Amtrak🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s full control or were abandoned completely. I decided to include this map as a reminder of the original operating plan, sort of an unfulfilled Utopian dream.
• As a result, the second map (from July 1971) better reflects what Amtrak actually looked like in those early times, with those few holdout competing railroads also indicated in grey.
• Because of the five year increments, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s possible that some short-lived routes have slipped through the cracks. I apologise in advance if y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划favourite is missing.
• I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve tried my best to indicate major route changes – such as the Sunset Limited🔸澳洲幸运10预测‘s 1996 change from Phoenix to Maricopa – 🔸澳洲开奖 they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve occurred, but please do let me know if I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve missed any.
• It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s very notable that changes to the network have slowed over the last 15 or so years, with only some very modest extensions and additions in that time, as well as the continued absence of the Sunset Limited🔸澳洲幸运10预测 east of New Orleans.
• The 1991 map probably shows the network at its absolute zenith, with multiple routes out of Salt Lake City to the West Coast, multiple international routes to Montreal and Toronto, service to Mobile, AL and more! Note also the route to Atlantic City (now run by NJ Transit)… the 1991 timetable promotes the absolute heck out of this connection at every available opportunity.

As always, comments and corrections are most welcome!

After you’ve watched it through to about 2pm, some controls will appear down the bottom left to change the speed of the simulation, and also switch between “inbound” and “outbound” trains (which I think should be labeled more simply as “westbound” and “eastbound” as the path always follows a train’s trip from one end of the line to the other). Ray tells me that only showing one direction at a time was an intentional tradeoff, so as to not overwhelm the viewer on top of handling performance in the browser.

Ray’s also written a short piece on the background behind the project here, which is an interesting read.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: YouTube