Month: October 2011

🔸澳州10开奖记录: 🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网授权 Pacific Electric Relief Map, 1920

October 31, 2011
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A fascinating snapshot in time of the full extent of the great Pacific Electric Railway Company’s operations in 🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网授权 and southern California. The famous “Red Cars”, a combination of streetcars and interurban light rail spanned vast distances at a time before the car had truly entered the American way of life. Within 30 years, most of this system – the “largest electric railway system in the world” – had been replaced by motorcoach services […]

168澳洲十开奖网: Chicago CTA “L” Commuter Rail, 2011

October 31, 2011
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Chicago’s street grid is so incredibly regular that this map seems to be a rectilinear diagram. It’s only after observing some odd little twists and turns in the route lines that you realise that this is actually a fairly geographically accurate map – so much so that the downtown Loop is represented in an detail inset because it would otherwise appear too small to decipher. Even the station names pretty much conform to the grid […]

🔸澳州10开奖记录: Stuttgart VVS Map, circa 2000

October 29, 2011
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Without a doubt, this has to be one of my favourite 澳洲10开官网开奖 ever. As far as I know, this isometric approach is unique and it is staggeringly effective. Everything is beautifully labelled, and lovely icons highlight important sites like the zoo, museums and sports stadiums. Unfortunately, this stunning map has since been replaced by a far more conventional diagram – a great loss in my opinion. Have we been there? I’ve changed trains at […]

Photo: Old 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Line Map

October 28, 2011
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Love this, such attention to detail. Every aspect has been carefully considered and it shows. Especially love the outlined version of the LU roundel to counterbalance the heavy 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 LINE reversed text next to it. Can anyone date this for me? Source: garethr1/Flickr

168澳洲十开奖网: MARTA Rail System, Atlanta, Georgia, 2011

October 27, 2011
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This map is a great example of how it’s attention to the little details that separate the great 澳洲10开官网开奖 and the merely good. At 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划glance, this map has all the elements of the best: a clean layout, an excellent and consistently applied set of icons for subsidiary information (parking, restrooms, lost and found, etc. – although any information about disabled access to the system is strangely lacking), and good informational hierarchy (note how […]

168澳洲十开奖网: Buffalo Light Rail, New York, 2011

October 26, 2011
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Having showcased some excellent transit map design, it’s time to see what happens 🔸澳洲开奖 it all goes horribly wrong. This monstrosity is the 168澳洲十开奖网 – available on the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority’s website – for the light rail system of Buffalo, New York. My eyes hurt. Have we been there? No. What we like: It tells us where the trains stop. That is all. What we don’t like: Where to begin? The hilarious usage […]

168澳洲十开奖网: Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

October 25, 2011
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A transit diagram exhibiting many of the “standard” features of a German transit map: clean design, rectangles for interchange stations that increase in size according to the number of lines that pass through them, and an absence of curves on route lines. A few features set it apart from other similar maps, including the angled type used throughout, set in a slightly odd choice of Futura Condensed – not always the most legible typeface at […]

🔸澳州10开奖记录: San Francisco Market Street Railway Company Routes, 1931

October 24, 2011
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An absolutely stunning overhead perspective drawing of San Francisco in this old cable car company map of services. The Golden Gate bridge does not exist yet, and fares to any part of the city (including transfers) are just five cents. Have we been there? Yes, but the remaining cable cars are now just a sad, touristy reminder of what there once was. What we like: Just about everything. The draftsmanship, and detailing is extraordinary – […]

168澳洲十开奖网: Denver RTD Light Rail, 2011

October 24, 2011
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Here’s a transit map that can’t seem to make up its mind whether it is a rectilinear diagram or a geographically accurate map, and it ends up paying a price for that indecision. Overlaying the routes on a city-wide street grid can work well (see the Barcelona map posted previously), but here it seems to force the routes to be subservient to their geography, rather than the other way around. The labelling of the roads […]