Interestingly, an ad for a baker on the pamphlet definitively dates this map to 1957, but trams along Cavendish Road (to the south east of the map, and where my mother lived at the time) ceased operation in 1955 and were replaced by trolley buses. Perhaps the map just makes no distinction between the two, although copy on the reverse side still asks riders to “take the Cavendish Road tram”.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: State Library of Queensland

While I understand that producing this type of map often involves a rapid turnaround with very little budget, this effort just doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t convey the required information quickly and coherently. The biggest problem is that the diagram bears very little resemblance to the 168澳洲十开奖网 – going so far as to split Sydenham and Redfern stations into two separate parts! – so there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s nothing visually familiar for users to relate the changes to. The starkly angled type is hard to read, and the affected stations of the Bankstown Line take up far too much vertical space to be read coherently. The depiction of the Airport branch of the T8 line is almost embarrassingly bad, as is the jaunty angle the Eastern Suburbs line takes out to Bondi Junction.

As a contrast, here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s an alternate version whipped up by @RoamingZephyr on Twitter that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s just so much better:

It fits into the same shell as the original map, so there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s no cheating here – just a far more unified design that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s easier to read and understand. Note that it takes far more design cues from the full system map, so it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s much more immediately familiar to users. The grouping of the bus routes – to Central and Sydenham above the closed line, and to stations on the T8 line below it – is immediately intuitive and works really well. The inclusion of the L1 light rail line is nice for the sake of completeness, although I doubt that it would be a valid alternative to the buses for getting to the city in a timely manner. Great work that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a definite improvement over the original in my book!

Overall, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a very pleasantly stylised depiction of the network using 30-degree angles, though it probably takes diagrammatic expansion of the downtown area to extremes. The distance from Harb🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划Esplanade to Spring Street is just 2.5km (or 1.5 miles), but it takes up a huge portion of the map, shrinking Melbourne🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s expansive suburbs substantially. I will say that the extra room for the CBD is used well, however – I particularly like the inclusion of the physical footprints of the city railway stations and how they interact with major downtown tram stops.

The main axis of routes along Swanson Street/St. Kilda Road is the major compositional device of the map, and it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a strong design element. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d probably like to see the single routes that cut across this road be brought to the top of the layer stack to make them a little easier to follow: the 6 and 58 in particular could benefit from this, but the east-west routes in the downtown zone would also look better if they were in front, I think.

I believe that the labels for the roads that the trams run along are new to this version of the diagram, and they certainly help with navigation and general orientation, especially as not all the interchanges are named. The inclusion of major landmarks and points of interest is also very welcome, though not quite so much 🔸澳洲开奖 they get shifted out of their proper location by other labels. For example, the Docklands Observation Wheel (yet another giant Ferris Wheel, branded as the Melbourne Star) is just 200 metres north of the Waterfront City Docklands stop, but that very label pushes the marker for the Wheel much further east, looking like a lengthy trek to reach.

Aside:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 It tickles me pink that in a city renowned for sports that need oval playing fields – cricket and Australian Rules Football – the venue used for the rugby codes and soccer is simply labelled as the “Rectangular Sports Stadium”.

The striped blue water is a pleasant design feature, although it does clash a bit with the similarly striped Zone 1/2 area to the top right of the map. As the zone area has to be striped to convey the idea that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s “between zones”, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d probably have looked for a different texture for the water (subtle waves, perhaps?), or just used a flat blue instead.

A clean, no-nonsense legend and neat integration of the night tram network and weekend route deviations are other highlights of the map.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测Once you get over the initial shock of the massive enlargement of the downtown area, this is actually a very competent diagram with a very consistent design language. More care could perhaps be taken with the order that the routes cross each other, but that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not a deal breaker by any means. The addition of labels for the roads is a great evolution over the previous version.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Yarra Trams website

I felt like Melbourne was so far away because of the Covid-Curtain and desperately wanted to do anything but study for uni this weekend so I made this!

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s amazing how different the approaches to passenger commute information, up-front legibility and overall design cues differ between the rival cities.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

What a fun little project!

What I particularly like is just how far Thomas has taken the “body swap”: the real Melbourne map shows V-Line services out into regional Victoria, so the “Melbourne-ised” Sydney map does the same… whereas the official Sydney map stops at the edges of Greater Sydney, so the “Sydney-fied” Melbourne map follows suit. City Circle becomes City Loop, and vice versa. Line nomenclature gets swapped, and so on. Even service names become more like their adopted homes: V-Line becomes VicLink to mimic NSW🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s TrainLink. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s all rather wonderfully done.

Overall, Thomas has done a great job of recreating each style, although the type for the Melbourne map isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t quite the right font and should be black instead of dark gray. The big terminus lettering for Cranbourne and Frankston seems unnecessarily cramped, and I really would have liked to see the Stony Point Shuttle line use the exact shade of teal that the Sydney Metro uses – most of the work has already been done by using the same cased line and the superfluous “S” for each station marker… the right col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划just would have made everything perfect🔸澳洲幸运10预测. The Sydney map is pretty much spot-on, however – even down to the way that lines outside the “zone boundary” get compressed into very tight and unrealistic spaces.

The other main takeaway is just how much🔸澳洲幸运10预测 this version of Sydney map looks like the pre-2013 CityRail map (September 2012, 3.5 stars), which probably says something about the slightly more generic design language that the current Melbourne map uses: ticks for stations, rounded corner rectangles for interchanges, etc.

Head over to Thomas🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 Behance page for more detail on the project.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Thomas Soo/Behance

This is my interpretation of what Melbourne🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s rail network could look like in the style of the 1972 Vignelli New York Subway map.

I have depicted the current Melbourne 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 passenger rail network as it stands in 2020, plus one tram route. Given this is a map of Melbourne with the largest tram network in the world, I wanted to include at least one tram route. Why the route 96 specifically? It’s the closest thing that we have to light rail, being separated from vehicle traffic for most of its route, and it now has 100% accessible stops.

I have also taken some small liberties of rebranding the network to reflect the original work more closely.

For example, creating a new ‘🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Transport Authority’ (similar to ‘The Met’ and its various iterations) and designating a col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划and letter for each line.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Yes, there are way too many Vignelli-esque reimaginings of 澳洲10开官网开奖 these days – see these maps of 🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网授权 and Portland that I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve previously featured – but this is a fun little diversion for a Friday afternoon.

Generally, Philip has nailed the look and feel of the Vignelli diagram well – the reimagined logo for the Melbourne “MTA” is a particularly nice touch – though I think that Vignelli🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s insistence on each service having a full route line on the map would mean that the Alamein, Belgrave and Lilydale lines would get separated out instead of appearing as branches of the one trunk line. This strict interpretation of the Vignelli style would make the City Loop completely unworkable, however, so I can see why Philip has taken this approach.

Less forgivable is the repetition of letters for line designations: only “SS” shuttle lines repeat on the Vignelli map, so I don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t think having three “S” lines (Sunbury, Sandringham, and Stony Point) is really permissible. Taking further inspiration from the source, maybe one of the “divisions” of this fantasy MTA could use numerical designations?

The map does have one masterstroke, however – the legend of services at the top clearly and plainly explains service patterns for each line, including 🔸澳洲开奖 each one goes clockwise or counter-clockwise around the Loop, long an arcane mystery. As this information is impossible to convey on a static map, this explanatory text is the best solution I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve yet seen, and perfectly in line with the similar legend on the Vignelli diagram.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A great bit of fun that looks the part, and also manages to convey some really useful rider information.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Philip🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s blog

Not a heavy Metro-centric map like y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划usual fare, these are mostly country road coaches spanning the wide south-west of Western Australia (spanning about 1,300kms from Kalbarri to Esperance). I find it interesting to look at though, especially the reliance on different dot-dash combinations for each coach. Would be interesting to hear y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划thoughts.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划things 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划– let🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s get the pronunciation of this awkwardly styled name out of the way: it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s “Trans double-u ay”, short for “Transport Western Australia”, even though it really looks like it should be “Trans-wah”.

The next thing to note is the sheer scale of this map: it stretches over 685 km (425 miles) east to west, and 950 km (590 miles) north to south – and that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s still🔸澳洲幸运10预测 only the southwest quarter of the state of Western Australia! Interestingly, the map shows both rail services and long-distance coach services on the same map – the rail tends to run more frequently than the buses, which are often on a thrice-weekly schedule. While the train stations get a fairly traditional black dot to indicate stations, the bus stops get an odd little bullet point adjacent to the relevant route lines, which is not something I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve ever seen before. It seems that this approach has been taken because the different line styles used for the bus route lines – solid, dashed, dotted, etc.) would make it difficult for any normal stop symbol to work effectively.

All these different line styles are implemented so that the routes can be col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划coded into directional groups but it does make the map look very busy, and all the usual problems with dashes, etc. being interpreted as meaning “under construction” or “less service” come into play as well. As there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s only a few lines in each grouping, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d have preferred to see variations in solid colours instead – tints and shades of the base col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划would probably work just fine.

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 big plus, however: the “Service Connection” marker really does indicate a location where you can get off a bus and transfer to another destination within a reasonable timeframe – a huge consideration 🔸澳洲开奖 another bus might not be along for a couple of days!

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测Perhaps an overly-complex solution to a pretty simple problem, but it does the job in the end. Two-and-half stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Transwa website

Attached is a map of available bus routes from a single stop near Sydney🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Central Station. Apologies for the image quality [Don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t worry – I straightened the image in Photoshop – Cam].

I was intrigued by the map with my 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划impression being that it would be very useful to tourists and visitors near Central station, with a network of routes shown but focussing on the CBD area.

But after testing a couple of hypothetical queries I noticed some design issues, including, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not clear which stops Town Hall is next to, finding a route number for the closer stops is confusing and suggests they should🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve used more colours instead of repeating blue, some street names are not shown (e.g. King Street and Pitt Street) likely due to an abundance of other text such as bus stop numbers (not sure of the purpose of these), and most importantly, there are no suburb names on the map. Also why is the 374 line separated from the others, as if it goes through Hyde Park, and what happens at the + of the 430/311 lines near Town Hall? Overall I found it quite useful as a Sydney resident with some background knowledge, but I fear most visitors would stumble on using this map.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

This is a very🔸澳洲幸运10预测 peculiar map, Felix. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a form of spider map, showing routes in a particular direction from particular bus stop, but it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s far more geographically oriented than most, which tend to be more diagrammatic in nature. This, I think, is where its problems begin.

From what I can work out, this map shows northbound routes only from the bus stop on Elizabeth Street at Hay Street. So every route shown (and there are nine🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of them!) are all travelling north on Elizabeth Street, even though the route lines span an area much, much🔸澳洲幸运10预测 wider than that street. The empty gap between the grey 343 and the dark blue 374 doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t help much, as it makes it look like the rightmost group of routes must be travelling on a different street. The only reason I can see for the gap is to get the 339 and 374 badges to line up next to each other… which is silly, as they could just be offset vertically to fit properly. Adding another badge for the 343 as part of this group would help immensely as well.

Another note on the bus number badges: in my opinion, the group heading north over the Harb🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划Bridge are labelled in the wrong order. From left to right, the lines as shown are the mid-blue 430, the dark blue 320, and the grey 343… but from top to bottom they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re labelled as the 320, 343 and 430. You could argue that this is in ascending numerical order, but I feel it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s always more important for the lines and numbers to correspond visually for easy reference. As it stands, the 430🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s badge barely touches its corresponding route line.

The 311 took me a while to work out, but then I realised that it has a janky little route that starts at the Elizabeth Street/Hay Street stop before going out along Oxford Street and Darlinghurst Road to Elizabeth Bay and Potts Point (off the right edge of the map), before returning to the city (crossing Elizabeth Street again at Park Street) and heading up to its northern terminus in The Rocks. Weird!

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s definitely unfortunate that three mid-blue lines run adjacent to each other along Park Street (the M50, 311 and 430), as there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s very little contrast between them. An expanded col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划palette could be the solution, but Sydney wayfinding is pretty rigid in having the different transit modes distinguished by a limited set of colours – red for light rail, green for ferries, blue for buses (and everything else for trains).

The labelling for the Town Hall Station (Park Street, Stand K) and Sheraton on the Park (Elizabeth Street) stops are definitely problematic, mainly because of that gap between the Elizabeth Street routes. It really does makes it look like the two leftmost dots on Elizabeth Street belong to the Town Hall label, which is ambiguously placed. Strangely, the Martin Place and Chifley Square stops have a little joining line to “bridge the gap” on Elizabeth Street, but it seems to have been omitted here.

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not too concerned about the lack of suburb names on the map (which is basically just the CBD with a tiny bit of Pyrmont and Darlinghurst at the edges), but I would🔸澳洲幸运10预测 like to see final destinations for each of the routes that leaves the map. “Continues beyond CBD” is almost willfully unhelpful.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 In the end, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m just puzzled as to exactly who this map is trying to help. Felix mentions tourists, but I really hope they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re not standing forlornly on Elizabeth Street trying to catch a bus into town! Regular commuters will have “their” bus route committed to memory, and don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t need all the fussy information about intermediate city stops – they just want to get on a bus and go home! And casual users are probably going to be more interested in the final destinations of the buses, and that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not indicated here. Overall, it just seems like a map without a clear purpose or vision. Two stars.

A solid mid-1980s map of Adelaide🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s surprisingly extensive suburban rail network – though there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s less branch lines than seen on this 1978 map, and many of the ones shown here would disappear in the next few years, no longer seen as profitable.

The fact that all rail services are numbered allows short-turn and branch services to be easily discerned – on the green line, the 82 goes from Adelaide Station to Belair, while the 83 continues all the way out to Bridgewater, for example. Of particular note is the “cross-town” 54 route from Outer Harbor to the General Motors Holden plant at Elizabeth: this ran at shift-change times to ferry factory workers to and from the site, as did the 44 from Adelaide itself.

The map itself is simple and clear – definitely an improvement on the 1978 map – and manages to present a lot of information. In addition to the train lines, the map also shows the Glenelg tram (which then only ran into the city as far as Victoria Square) and two key bus routes: the “Bee Line” linking Victoria Square and Adelaide Station, and the Route 100 “Circle Line”. Informational call-outs also highlight timed bus connections at major interchange stations.

The designers seem to have made liberal use of Letratone (like Letraset, but for textures instead of type) on the map, both for water and the zone boundaries – a very 1980s production technique!

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测For the 1980s, this really isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t bad at all. Information-rich, and done with an absolute minimum of fuss. 3.5 stars out of 5.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Neal Holmes/Twitter

The Melbourne suburban train network just after the City Loop opened in 1981. This is probably my favourite map of this particular network: it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s clean and graphically simple — black dots are all that are used to indicate parking, not a graphical vehicle icon or even a “P” in a circle. The colours are nice and bright and group the lines into operational groups quite neatly… an approach I prefer far more than the zone-based colours that Melbourne went to in the 1990s.

The vertical labels for Spencer Street and Parliament stations on the Loop are unfortunate and probably could have been avoided with a little more thought. The least successful element is probably the hollow dashed lines to indicate co-ordinated bus routes, which seem a little vague to be useful to the uninitiated. Regular commuters would probably get along just fine, however.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Waking Up in Geelong

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve designed this schematic map of what Victoria🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s passenger rail network looked like in 1928. It was absolutely huge, with 114 lines and 1,185 stations.

The map is built around the seven main lines (thicker 15pt lines) with branch and other lines thinning out (10pt) to create a basic visual heirarchy. This emphasises services rather than infrastructure, as it also shows where passengers were required to interchange.

Line groups are in one of six colours according to the main line to which its timetable was aligned. For example, the Clarkfield – Lancefield Line is shown in the col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划of the Bendigo Line because passengers wishing to travel on this service would take a Bendigo train to Clarkfield and change to another train bound for Lancefield. The timetables of both lines were harmonised so that waiting times were minimised.

The only exception to these rules is the Overland or ‘Adelaide Express’ as it was previously known. This is the single brown line that extends west along the Serviceton Line from Flinders Street Station. The reason for showing this separately is that it had a different stopping pattern specific to this service, and was designated as a separate line by VR (unlike the other interstate trains to Albury, Mount Gambier and Pinaroo).

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s worth noting that despite the comprehensive scale of the network, many of these lines only had a couple of trains per week or were part of goods trains. The timetables of the period show how low the service levels were for most of these areas.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Now this is the kind of epic 🔸澳州10开奖记录ping project that I can get behind! Philip🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s done a great job of clearly and concisely showing this sprawling network – the decision to use just a few colours to denote the main trunk lines and their branch lines works spectacularly well, stopping the map from looking too crazy or multi-coloured. I also really like the light grey suburban lines sitting below the main route lines, providing valuable context without being too overpowering or distracting.

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d perhaps like to see the labelling a little bigger: my own experience tells me that on massive maps like this it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s important to get type as large as you can, especially if you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re selling prints! I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d also be interested in seeing a version with coastline and the border with New South Wales, as quite a few stations (while nominally “Victorian”) are north of that boundary, and just one station – Pinnaroo – in South Australia. Showing borders could help hold the composition of the map together and provide some geographical context, but the schematic distortion may also be too great to allow this to be done convincingly.

There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s also a few minor errors here and there – the end of the suburban line at Hurstbridge extends past the terminus station dot; and the 90-degree curves between Murtoa and Jung aren🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t nested properly, to name two that quickly stood out to me.

Head on over to Philip🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s blog for more detail on the making of the map – a really interesting read.