Hi Cameron, 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划I would like to mention that I greatly appreciate y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划work and have learned lots about 澳洲10开官网开奖 from y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划blog alone. It was also this blog that inspired me to try to design my own maps. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a great joy to me now. Here, I would like to share with you my take on the network in Valencia which, I thought, would be a fun challenge. For the line and station design, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve chosen a similar style to one that I used in my Bay Area diagram. My goal was to make the Valencia map more aesthetically pleasing, simplify the geometry, and come up with a different idea for the zone boundaries. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d love to hear y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划opinion and things you think can be improved. Looking forward to it!

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Apart from one thing (which I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll get to later), I absolutely adore🔸澳洲幸运10预测 this diagram, Tom. 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划off, I love the typeface used (Cera Pro), which has a wonderful legibility to it as well as having one of the best sans serif capital Q🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s I have ever seen – just lovely. The open feeling that Cera Pro creates continues throughout the rest of the diagram, which feels clean and spacious throughout – nothing is crammed up tight to anything else, which is so nice to see.

Unlike the official diagram [review from June 2022 here – Cam] which doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t bother with any sort of mode differentiation (it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s all just “Metrovalencia”), Tom🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s diagram differentiates between the more suburban rail lines and the urban tram lines in two subtle but very effective ways. The rail lines are cased with a darker shade of their line col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划and🔸澳洲幸运10预测 use a much larger radius 🔸澳洲开奖 they change direction compared to the tram lines. These larger curves are another part of what makes this diagram so elegant, but the tram lines need tighter radiuses, especially for the loop Line 4 makes at its eastern end – Tom🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s solution accommodates both needs.

Other nice design touches: subtle drop shadows throughout lift the station markers up above the route lines; the texture on the sea is delightful; and the zone backgrounds are lovely and subtle – a far cry from the “in y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划face” colours used on the 168澳洲十开奖网. They may actually be just a tad too🔸澳洲幸运10预测 subtle, but I appreciate the different approach. The diagram🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s legend is clean, easy to understand and is integrated nicely into the overall design of the piece, instead of being an afterthought.

So what🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the one thing I don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t like? The exaggerated angle that the urban area of the diagram takes. In reality, Valencia🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s “north” is tilted about 20 degrees clockwise from true north, and the maritime district isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t that much further south than the historic core of the city. So seeing everything rotated on a huge 45-degree angle, with the maritime district pushed so far south (and the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències pushed even further out of place), just looks jarringly wrong. The distinctive “green belt” of the old Turia River parkland mitigates this somewhat, but it still looks strange to my eyes.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A stylish, elegant diagram with a lot of modern design touches that perhaps strays just a little too far from being grounded by the real world layout of the city it represents. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s still pretty darn awesome.

I would like to share the TRAM d🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页Alacant fare zone map. It describes the different zones and stops of this tramway/narrow gauge train in the Spanish province of Alacant (Alicante). It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s been reopened recently after six years of renovation works.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

This is a fairly solid diagram that shares a lot of design language with the transit map of Valencia (reviewed in July 2022). This is perhaps understandable, as it seems that the Generalitat Valenciana has at least overseen the design of both maps. Like Valencia, the main urban area (Zone A) has been expanded in relation to the rest of the map, which is basically one corridor running up the coast to Dénia some 45 miles/70 kilometres away. The city is similarly represented more geographically, while the outer reaches are diagrammatic with evenly spaced stations from one end to the other.

Line 3 (Yellow) acts a local service for Line 1 (Red), which runs express within the urban limits of Alacant most🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of the time – the legend explains that 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划and last trains each day on Line 1 stop at all stations. This is indicated by the red line being visible through the white “shared station” symbol, which I don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t find particularly intuitive – I wonder whether a dot on Line 3 with a longer tick line crossing Line 1 would have been more effective?

I have two main issues with this otherwise competent diagram. First, the representation of the coastline is overly fussy and poorly drawn. Do we need the little bumps near Benidorm? Or the wharf (or whatever the heck that is) near Calp? And if it is somehow important to show the port/marina area in Alacant itself, then show it properly🔸澳洲幸运10预测, instead of cutting it off at the bottom of the canvas. The non-standard angles at the top of the diagram used to represent Cap Martí drive me insane.

Secondly, the legend looks like an afterthought just thrown down wherever. As with the Valencia map, the legend inexplicably gets broken up by a zone boundary 🔸澳洲开奖 there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s plenty of room to fit it all within Zone B🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s space. The typesetting is also poor – some entries have a very long 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划line (longer than an optimal reading length) and then a very short second line. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d be much better to balance those lines evenly to create a more compact, readable block of text. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m also a proponent of always starting a new line with each change of language, instead of running them one after another on a single line – it just makes it explicit that a change is taking place.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测Competent enough, but let down by some strangely unpolished design choices with the coastline and legend. Does the job.

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

I would like to share with you the new Metrovalencia🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s network map, whose design has been updated with the opening of the new Line 10 this year. The main reason why the transit operator decided to redesign it from scratch instead of just adding the new line layout is because they wanted to start avoiding using diagonal-axis labels on it, as they think horizontal labels are more accessible for people with intellectual disability.

But there are more differences:

• Tram services now are represented again with solid lines, as it was in the previous map before the 2015🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s redesign, ending with the differentiation from the “metro” ones. This could be because the new Line 10 is such a mix, operated with tramway units but with underground stations in the city center. But maybe this rule could have been maintained using the two-toned line for the street-runing sections and the solid line style for traffic segregated sections, for example.
• They🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve included some spatial references, such as the curves of the subway tunnel between Àngel Guimerà and Xàtiva or Ayora and Marítim, or the Pont de Fusta loop, which before they were in a straight line.
• As almost all the city center stations are shared by different lines, now all of them are officially transfer stations. The map also points 🔸澳洲开奖 in the same station different lines stop in different platforms (e.g. Alameda). The old transfer icon now represents intermodal stations where the users can change from subway to tramway lines or vice versa (except in Bailén/Alacant, maybe because they consider they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re different stations?).
• It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s drawn the future underground moving walkway which will be built to connect Xàtiva and Alacant stations as the project to extend the line some meters more with a new station for Line 10 built in Xàtiva was cancelled. Now, this connection just can be done walking on the street as the woman icon pretends to explain.
• In this new map version, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s represented the stations where some routes can end 🔸澳洲开奖 they run as partial routes, with the line icon near its label.
• The transit operator decided to reduce the number of fare zones from 4 to just 2 (plus the Airport fare zone), so now there are some stations that belong to both zones represented by this background color overlap.

A similar design has been created also for the TRAM of Alicante, which is run by the same transit operator, so now both cities shares the same map style (but with different typeface: Titillium for Metrovalencia and Rotis for TRAM).

I would appreciate if you could check this version and tell us y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划opinion about if all these changes and new additions have been really an improvement or just unnecessary with the previous map design [from 2015; review here – Cam] as a reference.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s some things I really like about this diagram and there are others I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not so fond of… so let🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s start with the good!

Metrovalencia is a bit of an odd system in that it freely combines street-running trams, a full metro including subways, and commuter rail that runs far out into the surrounding countryside, all under one umbrella. So I really don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t mind that there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s no attempt made at mode differentiation here – these lines are all part of Metrovalencia, and are all treated equally. What I really do🔸澳洲幸运10预测 like is that the central Zone A is presented with a good degree of spatial accuracy, and the map then gets progressively more diagrammatic the further out it gets. This condenses those far-flung lines (especially Line 1 to the south) rather wonderfully. Presumably, the way that stops are grouped along those lines reflects the different built-up urban areas along each route – though it does perhaps just end up looking a bit haphazard. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d be interested in seeing an alternative where the stops are always evenly spaced: it might just look a little more harmonious.

The overlapping zones are drawn about as neatly as they can be, though I do think they could be a bit lighter in tone. As it stands, it seems like some of the route colours have had to be strengthened quite a lot to compete with the background – Line 1 is more of a dull gold than its previous goldenrod yellow, for example. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s also unfortunate that the dark gold outline for Zone A passes right through the middle🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of the map🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s legend!

The new interchange markers are definitely an improvement over the previous version, clearly indicating 🔸澳洲开奖 passenger movement between platforms or modes is required. The weakest interchange design is at Empalme, where Line 1 takes a 90-degree turn underneath 🔸澳洲幸运10预测the marker, which is generally regarded as bad design practice.

Finally, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s interesting to note that this diagram takes the approach of using a crossed-out wheelchair icon to indicate the one and only non-accessible station at Valencia Sud, which is fair enough.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A definite improvement in my eyes, though still not truly outstanding. By my reckoning, this is at least the third🔸澳洲幸运10预测 totally different design for the Metrovalencia diagram since 2009 (🔸澳洲开奖 I visited the city and rode the network), which is fairly rapid turnover and doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t really speak to a consistent design language for the network.

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

I would want to share with you the railway diagram I made of the Asturias Principality (Spain), in case you are interested in comment it in y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划blog. The main advantage of this diagram is that I take into account the whole Principality, not just its central commuter area, as all the other maps of Asturias do. In addition, I have included the new station names that Renfe is trying to implement (it has taken many years for them to decide to do so) in order to take into account the Asturian nomenclature instead of the Spanish one.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Wow, this is fantastic🔸澳洲幸运10预测 work from Tubal here – clear and clean design with heaps of information encoded into the design, all supported by a comprehensive and easy to read legend. I particularly like the yellow shading that indicates urban areas (which could then be shown with more detailed maps if this overview diagram was part of a larger graphic system).

Any quibbles I have are very, very minor: the labelling could perhaps be a bit larger throughout – particularly for the names of those urban areas and then for the names of the rivers. These are placed within🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the rivers at the moment, which severely limits the size of the type. Placing the label alongside the river would allow them to be bigger.

Only one part of the diagram strikes me as being perhaps a little too detailed 🔸澳洲开奖 compared to the rest: the tiny little right-angle jog that the R1 line takes between Valdredo and San Cosme. All the other lines are straightened out as much as possible, so this little kink really stands out. Even if the line takes such a turn in real life (and a quick look at Google Maps suggests that it does), I think such a detail is unnecessary on a large-scale diagram like this.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 This is great – enough said!

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve been browsing the maps you have about my city, Madrid, and I noticed the map you have for the Renfe Cercanías network, the commuter rail in Madrid, is not up-to-date. The changes aren🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t huge, but the network does operate under substantially different patterns. I would really appreciate it if you took some time to check out the most modern version of the diagram.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

It has been a while since we looked in on Madrid🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s commuter rail diagram (see the previous review from June 2013 here), but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not really enamoured of this new version at all – for a few reasons, not all of which are design-related.

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划things 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划– this diagram is sloppy and messily drawn. The gap between adjacent route lines is wildly variable (check out the C-1 and C-7 lines as they round the bend south of Principe Pio station), and the fussy jogs in the lines through Sol and Méndez Alvaro stations just look awful and amateurish. There are better approaches to depicting these stations than these half-baked attempts if just a little thought was to be applied.

I find the zone boundaries are even more busy and distracting than they were before, as the contrast between the alternating zones has been increased – they really do come across as zebra stripes now. There has to be a way to either radically simplify the shapes of the zones or forego them in fav🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划of a zone designation label at each station, because this approach is now bordering on the absurd.

The thinner route lines and standardised station markers unfortunately make this diagram considerably more generic that the older map. While that map shares some of the same problems that this new one has, its unique design style compensated for those flaws quite a bit.

The non-design related problem with this diagram? The fact that this tiny 1200-pixel wide PNG of it is the only🔸澳洲幸运10预测 available version of it on Renfe🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s website – no PDF or even a higher-resolution image. Much of the smaller detail is difficult to make out and I wish you luck trying to read the legend at all! Delivering passenger information like this in 2022 is completely unacceptable and really needs to be looked at – and not just by Renfe, as plenty of other transit agencies still use raster images that are too small or overly compressed on their websites.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测Urgh. A huge backwards step in this diagram🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s evolution. Poorly drawn and delivered.

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

Here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s something that really shouldn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t work as well as it does, and yet it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s quite wonderful. I think part of the reason is that the isometric viewpoint is reminiscent of Barcelona🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s actual positioning on the coast (although the real-world angle is quite a bit steeper than 30 degrees), and almost comes across as an aerial view of the city. The simple division of the map into ocean (blue), city (white) and coastal mountain range (green) also works nicely. This – combined with the the named rivers at opposite ends of the city – give a good sense of scale to the diagram, even if it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not that geographically accurate. The distinctive station markers, sort of “reversed out” of the route line, are also quite nicely done.

Things aren🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t perfect, though – my usual pet peeves of uncapitalised labels and labels set in the same col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划as their route line rear their ugly heads once again. The uncapitalised labels could be excused as being a part of the distinctive look of the diagram, but it still hurts readability, especially with such a stylised typeface. (Or maybe this is one of those typefaces that eschew capital letters altogether?) The dotted line showing a future extension to join the two disparate parts of line 9 needs to have larger dots placed closer together as it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s very difficult to follow across the map at present. You could also argue that the isometric presentation forces the majority of the network to be crammed into about a third of the canvas, with a lot of empty ocean and mountain on either side, but the diagram is still quite clear even with that restriction.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测An interesting take on Barcelona🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Metro, and one that manages to be more than the sum of its parts – even with a few quirks and imperfections.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Twitter

I just wanted to share with you the 168澳洲十开奖网 of the buses (MetroBus) that link the city of Valencia (Spain) with towns of its 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 area. Map by the Valencia 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Transport Authority (ATMV).

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Oh dear. This is… bad🔸澳洲幸运10预测.

MetroBus (a collective term for all the 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 buses run by various operating companies in and around Valencia) operates over 100 routes, but you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d be hard pressed to see that from this desultory diagram.

For a start, there are no route numbers🔸澳洲幸运10预测 on the map at all, so it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s almost impossible to do any kind of route planning. And then there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the different col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划coding for the routes, which has no apparent or useful meaning because the map doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t have a legend.

There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s absolutely no reason for any🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of the stop labels on this map to be set at an angle, and yet so many are. The label for El Saler doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t even sit on its route line, missing it by a good margin.

What exactly happens to the routes 🔸澳洲开奖 they enter Valencia itself? The map seems to imply they all just suddenly terminate near the edge of Zone A, but I seriously doubt that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the reality of the situation.

A very minor positive: the zones are at least drawn relatively competently and aren🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t too distracting. I like the way that the zone letters are stacked neatly down the right edge of the map.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测Seems almost half-finished. Almost completely useless for any form of route planning.

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

Hello, months ago I designed a curvilinear version of Barcelona🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s railways and proximities. I think it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s interesting because it gives a new vision of the lines, and also I tried to make it satisfying to watch. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d like to receive professional opinions of my works, so I send it in this interesting website.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

This is a really interesting design experiment, and Frank has executed it expertly – the curves are nice and smooth throughout with some lovely transitions. The right hand side of the diagram does become noticeably busier than the left because of the proliferation of Metro lines and stations there, though I imagine that it would take some serious reworking to expand that part out more. Curvilinear diagrams are pretty unforgiving if adjustments are needed – it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not just a matter of moving a line or two over a bit like on a “traditional” rectilinear diagram, but instead completely redrawing the arc – or arcs!🔸澳洲幸运10预测 – that are affected.

The main problem I have with this diagram – as lovely as it is – is that it just doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t match my mental picture of Barcelona, one of the most famously gridded cities in the world. The coastline and surrounding rivers give some🔸澳洲幸运10预测 geographical cues, but I wonder if some more might come in handy – areas of green parkland at Montjuic and Parc Guell, for example. Without the straightness of Barcelona🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s grand avenues to provide context, the curvaceous rail lines just seem to meander from station to station, often taking a fairly circuitous route to get there. Some people think curvilinear route lines are easier for the eye to follow, but it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s definitely a balancing act to usefully convey information while still looking aesthetically pleasing.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Definitely interesting and quite graceful, though I still have my doubts about the overall utility of curvilinear diagrams like this.

This is the official system map for my hometown’s transit agency, Mataró Bus. It operates an 8-line bus system with frequencies up to 15 minutes, 365 days a year.

The map itself has undergone a small revamp in 2020, due to minor route changes for lines 3 and 4. Maps of individual lines are also available, as excerpts from the global map.

Mataró is a coastal town 30 km (20 mi) from Barcelona and has some 130,000 inhabitants, covering a total area of 22 sq km (8.7 sq mi). Some suburbs expand to the north (not shown on the map), but they lack regular public transport. The agency’s official ridership figure for 2019 was 4.5 million trips.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

A fairly standard bus map here, with routes overlaid on a simplified, ghosted-back street map, which has been rotated quite a bit clockwise to match the local perception of north as being away🔸澳洲幸运10预测 from the coast. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s mainly notable for two things:

First, it illustrates the problem of having a lot of concurrent routes on a geographical map, as the routes become much, much wider than the street they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re meant to be travelling along. In places, there are six out of eight possible routes travelling along the same route.

Second, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not sure I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve ever seen a bus network where every route is some form of loop. While only lines 1 and 2 get named officially as “Circle Lines”, all the others aren🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t far off. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s almost certainly a by-product of getting buses along narrow city streets, but it sure looks odd on a map!

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Unremarkable and just about tolerable as a system overview map, but fortunately supported by clearer single maps on the agency website. 2 stars.

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The map is mainly notable for its restrained use of the f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划colours available to it: black line work with blue, red and yellow all performing precisely one function each.

I also enjoy the economical depiction of Barcelona, which is represented solely by Montjuic, the port area and the towering Columbus Monument. Each of the major towns on the route gets a notable building as well — although the monastery at Montserrat is high above the town itself, connected to it by the famous cable car. Suria and Sallent would seem to be represented by their salt mines, major reasons for these towns to even have a rail connection.

Top marks for the lovely ornate north pointer, in perspective to boot!

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