I work upstairs in the old Grand Central and was every excited to check out the new station this morning. Spotted this new map on the wall down there, thought you might find it interesting.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Oh, I do like this. Graphically strong with bright, poppy colours and making good use of the unusual display format – eight vertical screens next to each other. The map looks to have been specifically designed for this format, as none of the labels cross over the breaks between panels – nicely done! Here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s hoping it doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t get blanked out by advertisements too much!

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s hard to see in this photo, but it looks like there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a lovely wavy texture to the water background, which is a nice design touch. Addition of ferry routes and points of interest on Long Island are also welcome. There are a few quibbles like the multiple angles for labels and the placement of some stations directly on corner points (the hard 90-degree turn that the Far Rockaway Branch takes from Valley Stream station looks particularly odd), but these are minor concerns. The typography and overall design is nicely evocative of Vignelli🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s diagrams without being completely derivative. Perhaps more art installation than useful map – I can imagine it would be hard to take the whole map in at once if you were standing in front of it – this is still some very strong design work.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Update: Better images of each panel in this Reddit post.

Waxholmsbolaget is a big ferry operator in Stockholm, connecting most of the small islands in the Stockholm archipelago. They have recently updated their line map to a very diagrammatic style. The idea is good, to make it easier to find the lines and where you are going, but it massively distorts the network and the omission of geographic features makes it very difficult to orient yourself. What do you think?

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

I commented briefly on this diagram on Twitter last week, but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll record my thoughts here in a little more detail as well.

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划off, it looks to me like the design of this diagram has been heavily influenced by the current Stockholm rail network diagram (PDF link), as it uses similar typography, design elements and symbology. The deep blue background col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划is a nice touch (and an improvement over the flat grey of the rail diagram), as is the way that the route/timetable numbers are presented on little nautical pennants. Overall, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s very nicely designed – it has a solid set of design rules that have been applied consistently as well as a comprehensive legend and annotations on the map.

Despite all these positives, I just don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t think the diagram actually really works for trip planning. As Matias says, the massive distortion of the network and the lack of any geographical cues makes it very difficult for a reader to orient themselves. In reality, the network is much taller than it is wide, spread out as it is along Sweden🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s eastern coastline, but the diagram is landscape instead of portrait. Any sense of distance or spatial relationship between the different stops is lost completely. There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s also the whole problem of what actually constitutes a “route” in the context of this diagram, but that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s better dealt with in this Reddit thread, which has a similar view of this diagram and its usefulness.

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s worth noting that the previous map was fully geographical, and I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not sure that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s the right solution either. It gives a much better idea of how the system physically fits together, but there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a lot of empty, wasted space as well. Maybe a hybrid simplified map with the more complex areas enlarged somewhat for clarity would be a good compromise?

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测Looks very stylish, but is it actually useful? I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d say not, and I have my doubts about a full “subway diagram” design like this being appropriate for a complex ferry network like this.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Official Waxholmsbolaget site

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划things first: the map is as slow as heck in Chrome on my iMac, and barely works at all🔸澳洲幸运10预测 in Safari, neither of which are particularly encouraging starts. It does run somewhat better on mobile, but we🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll have to see if the speed on desktop computers improves over the next few days, as it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not really usable at present.

The main selling point of this map is that it has the clarity of a diagram but the fidelity of a geographical map – “The best of both worlds!” the articles happily proclaimed this morning – but the reality is more like “Jack of all trades; master of none.” As much as I try, I simply can🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t see any real benefit to this approach.

A geographical base map is meant to give veracity🔸澳洲幸运10预测 to the data layers above it, grounding them in the real world. And this is true – for the station locations, which are fairly accurately placed. However, the paths the subway lines take between🔸澳洲幸运10预测 these points often bear no relation to the base map, or even reality. Let🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s take a look at the services that travel across the Manhattan Bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn – the B, D, N and Q. Because of the simplified paths drawn, the B and D completely miss the bridge – clearly shown on the base layer underneath it – and seem to cross the river in a new, previously undiscovered tunnel. And inexplicably, the N and Q don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t cross the river anywhere near🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the Manhattan Bridge, but continue all the way down to lower Manhattan and apparently share the same tunnel as the 4 and 5 to get to Brooklyn! The station order is correct – Canal Street to DeKalb Avenue – but the route taken on the map to get there is sheer insanity.

This kind of stuff appears randomly all over the map: some lines follow the roads that they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re aligned to in real life fairly faithfully, while others stair-step their way to their destination like a 90-degree-angle-only diagram. All of the lines down to Coney Island are treated differently and it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a visual nightmare. In real life, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a straight shot from Brighton Beach to Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue – look what the diagram does:

Quite frankly, there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s really no reason for this map to be diagrammatic at all outside of Manhattan – which, owing to its famous grid forms a diagram naturally. Most of the lines out in the boroughs follow a road (either elevated or dug cut-and-cover), so why not just follow them accurately and hon🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划the base map? It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d be a more consistent approach than the “sometimes but not always” approach that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s currently been taken.

Next, let🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s consider the design language of the diagram, which has fairly obviously been cribbed straight from the modern iteration of the Vignelli diagram. However, because the diagram is placed on a sprawling geographical base map instead of being a compact schematic, all the elements render too small at all but the most zoomed-in levels. The route lines are thin, the station dots are too small and the itty-bitty letters that designate services at each station are almost completely impossible to read. And once you zoom in close enough to be able to see these properly, you lose the ability to read the whole map in order to work out connections. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s really not great, usability-wise.

There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s technical problems too: parallel 45-degree curves don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t nest properly, some route lines appear slightly on top of others at certain zoom levels, some stations sit directly on changes of direction, corner radii are inconsistently applied (and missing altogether in many locations, despite a big deal being made about the “smooth curves” present in the map). This is stuff only a wonk like me notices, but it still leaves an unfavourable 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划impression.

That said, the way the map can display real-time train information and adapt on the fly to service changes is certainly very impressive, as is the way more or less information is displayed depending on the zoom level. I particularly like the way that the individual service lines roll up into single trunk lines at the most zoomed-out views. It seems to me that the technology behind the map is pretty solid and is the real “revolutionary” part of this service, but the presentation of it definitely needs some polishing and refinement, because this is pretty poor and inconsistent at the moment.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: MTA Live Subway Map

Worst map? High quality map I found while researching random rural transportation systems in the middle of nowhere across the country. I have to say, their website design is not much better either.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s all so easy to look at this very basic map and say that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s terrible, but we do need to be mindful that these small regional 🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果澳大利亚 operate on shoestring budgets with minimal staff and resources. Looking at the metadata of the PDF, I can see that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s been produced in Microsoft Publisher (not really a 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划choice for transit map design!) and the name attached to the “Author” field is that of TranGo🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s General Manager🔸澳洲幸运10预测 – it looks like they wear a lot of different hats within the organization if they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页re the ones producing the timetable brochure and map!

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 thing the map does🔸澳洲幸运10预测 do really well within its simple framework is differentiate between its routes by using shapes as well as col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划– meaning that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s actually quite accessible for colour-blind users, even if the method employed is a little unconventional.

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d also argue that the simplicity doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t matter that much, as the geography of this part of Washington means that there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s really only one way to get from one town to another: Okanogan to Twisp? State Highway 20. Brewster to Okanogan? U.S. Highway 97. And so on. In a way, this little diagram is simply a quick way of showing which towns are directly connected by bus services and no more, and in that it generally succeeds. There is a more detailed interactive map available on TranGo🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s website which shows full routes, bus stops and schedule information, so this map isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t the be-all-and-end-all of map from the agency.

I will also say that the TranGo logo is quite nice, though perhaps it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s uncomfortably similar to the previous SFMTA logo (which itself was accused of plagiarism at the time it was introduced).

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测No, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not great – but it does the job in the context it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s used in (an introductory brochure about transit in the area) and the constraints it was produced under.

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

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s actually a diagram of a telephonic dispatching system that the company was planning to install on its city and interurban lines, replacing a mixed telegraph/phone system. As telegraphs needed a skilled operator at every location, the benefits of a telephone – which almost any member of staff could readily use – were very apparent.

So instead of traditional stations along each line, the diagram instead shows the locations of these new-fangled telephones, spaced roughly a mile-and-a-half apart. Sometimes these were stations or car barns – but not always, as locations like “1/4 mile S. of Kenoche Road” attest.

The Buffalo city streetcars are arrayed out at the bottom of the diagram, spreading out from the company🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s private telephone exchange in Buffalo and arranged in correct topological order, while the interurban lines pass through the the despatch (sic) board on their way to Niagara Falls, Lockport and other distant destinations. It can be noted that one of the telephones on the Niagara Falls dispatching circuit is located in the Men🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Room of the company🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Niagara Falls offices!

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A telephonic circuit diagram that almost perfectly mimics the modern transit diagram in form. Fascinating! Read the full article from the Street Railway Journal🔸澳洲幸运10预测 for full details about the telephone network, including a great passage about how orders were sent, repeated and confirmed to be accurate by all parties over a telephone line.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: The Internet Archive

A fascinating map and diagram of the Singapore MRT from the period c. 2000 (after the opening of the Bukit Panjang LRT in 1999, but before the change to a different mapping style in 2001).

Both show the original method of using paired colours for each direction of travel along a route – an unconventional but memorable method of wayfinding. Take the Green line to head towards Pasir Ris, but the Blue Line to go the opposite direction towards Boon Lay, for example. This worked in the early days of the network, but as the system became more complex it was quickly realised that things was going to become unwieldy and the current system of line colours and station codes was introduced in 2001.

There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s nothing too outstanding about either design – both use the SMRT logo as a station marker, and the map has a pretty average (and very🔸澳洲幸运10预测 late-90s) gradient fill for Singapore itself. It would seem that the diagrammatic version was used as the in-car maps on trainsets, and it is quite efficient in its use of space. There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s perhaps even an attempt to show how cross-platform transfers work at Raffles Place and City Hall, as all the lines criss-cross each other to end up in specific pairs at both stations: Green/Yellow and Blue/Red at Raffles Place, and Yellow/Blue and Red/Green at City Hall. A nice usability touch if that is indeed the intent!

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测An interesting look at an unconventional approach to line wayfinding in the less complicated days of the SMRT, though it definitely wouldn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t work with today🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s comprehensive network!

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

A few weeks ago, i made a fairly rough strip map of almost all Bay Area passenger rail services using some pens and graph paper. I was wondering if you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d like to review it?

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

A nice effort at a Bay Area-wide topological diagram, Fern! It certainly fits into the long, narrow proportions of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划average strip map nicely. I particularly like the use of a “half-grid” for the local Muni Metro services. Of course, labelling everything🔸澳洲幸运10预测 on a compact diagram like this can be tricky, so it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d be interesting to see how well this concept stands up under that load.

See also:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Burrito Justice🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s “reductio ad absurdum” topological diagram of BART

I absolutely love this almost abstract representation of the Gotthardbahn from a Swiss advertising brochure from 1957. Just major cities, the distinctive loops and spirals of the line (described in detail in this post from 2014) and the famous 15-kilometre-long Gotthard Tunnel shown illustratively cutting through a massive mountain.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Retours.eu

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d like to submit a map I have been working on for quite some time and finally completed. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a diagram of the Shinkansen high speed train network in Japan. As the network is basically one main trunk line going from Kyushu to Hokkaido and several spurs it makes sense to show it in a schematic way. Also high speed makes geography and distance almost irrelevant.

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 will easily notice that the 4 main Japanese islands together form roughly a quarter of a circle while the national flag of Japan features a full red disc. Combine both and you get the foundations for a schematic representation of Japan. Add city names, in Japanese and English, and all train services (express, limited express, local) with their own dedicated names et voilà! You get a complete map of all Shinkansen services, no stop no dot, with a very, very iconic feel.

There is also another small diagram below showing the names of the track portions: Hokkaido, Tohoku, Tokaido… I hope you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll like it!

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Another interesting project from the prolific Jug! I really love the stylised, graphical feel to this diagram: the stark red, black and white design is very striking, and the quarter rising sun leaves the reader in very little doubt as to what network is being represented!

The sweeping arc of the main trunk line is masterful: all the stations are spaced precisely one degree around the circle from each other, with their common centre point being the very top left corner of the map. Because of this, the station names seem to radiate evenly out from the edge of the circle: a nice effect. Perhaps strangely, this radial nature doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t extend to the lines that head inland, which all use a common 37-degree angle (the angle that Omiya, the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划station with a branch line extending from it, is at). The 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划group of lines doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t look so bad, as they all head generally towards the top left corner, but the last branch line to Akita is at a very🔸澳洲幸运10预测 different angle to the radial type around the circle🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s edge, and looks oddly skewed as a result. To be fair, it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s probably like this for a very practical reason as it allows station labels to fit into the spaces between the lines more easily, but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d love to see a truly🔸澳洲幸运10预测 radial version of this diagram. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve quickly superimposed some blue lines on Jug🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s map below to give an idea of what that could look like.

A few more notes: the text on Jug🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s project page explains that the popular Japan Rail Pass is not accepted on the fastest Nozomi🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Mizuho🔸澳洲幸运10预测 trains, but this useful information isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t present on the map itself. Similarly, the station names shown to the north of Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto to Sapporo are part of a future expansion of the network, but no explanation to that effect appears on the map. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m all for minimalism, but some things do need just a little🔸澳洲幸运10预测 more explanation.

Finally, a technical note: the white text reversed out of the red background is very fine and would be prone to filling in 🔸澳洲开奖 printed. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s often a good idea to bump the font weight up a level 🔸澳洲开奖 reversing type, or to use a typeface that has positive and negative versions, each tailored for specific applications.

The final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A strong graphical concept, very well executed. My personal preference would be for the whole diagram to continue on with the radial theme, but I feel sure that Jug explored that option during development before coming up with the solution he felt worked best.

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View the map below (updated to March 2022 with the opening of the GLX to Union Square), or click here to view it full-screen.

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划things first: note that this an evolution🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of the previous version, not a complete redesign. So a lot of the general look and feel remains the same – the 3:2 ratio of the overall dimensions, the use of a circle centred on Bowdoin to define the scale and grid of the map, the distinctive configuration of the Green Line branches, etc. These are all things that I was still happy with from the previous version, so they became part of the building blocks for this version.

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 thing I really wanted this new map to be was a little less generic🔸澳洲幸运10预测 than my old one: its station connectors and iconography really looked like they could have belonged to pretty much any city. So I looked back to the original 1967 MBTA spider maps, which used black dots for stations with thin connector lines between lines at North Station and Haymarket; while the individual line map used coloured squares to indicate connections to other lines (see image to left)🔸澳洲幸运10预测. I used these as inspiration for the station markers on my map, drawing on the MBTA🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s heritage while also updating them slightly to account for the modern system🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s increased complexity. Using black dots meant that I had to brighten up the line colours considerably from the old version, which used richer “heritage” hues, like crimson for the Red Line in hon🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划of Harvard instead of a normal red. The 1967 spider map also inspired my use of a thinner route line for the Mattapan Line, which really helps differentiate it from the  adjacent Red Line at Ashmont. While it may seem heretical to some, I also ditched Helvetica Medium as the map🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s typeface, opting for the superbly legible Fira Sans instead (also used on my Amtrak Subway Map). Finally, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve employed the superb Accessible Icon to indicate accessibility at rail stations – it reads much better at smaller sizes than the old ISO Standards icon; and it originated in Boston, so its use seems highly appropriate.

From here, a lot of the work was just being far more deliberate with how the map was structured. More elements were purposefully aligned with each other this time around, which creates a cleaner, more organised feel.  For example, the Red Line from Alewife all the way down to Braintree is now a perfectly symmetrical bow shape, which pleases me immensely. The Needham Line (included in full this time around!) lines up with Forest Hills station, then Morton St, then Shawmut. The Mattapan Line aligns with the Greenbush Line. The Red Line bullet at Braintree aligns with the Blue Line bullet at Wonderland, defining the eastern edge of the network. There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s way too many examples to write about, so here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a picture. The pink guide lines show intentional relationships between elements on the map: note in particular how  the baselines of station labels line up all across the map to create invisible horizontal gridlines.

The Silver Line was simplified a lot from the old map: running three lines in parallel for the SL1, SL2 and SL3 out of South Station was going to be too unwieldy, so one line was to represent all trunk services. I also committed to horizontal labels for the  Silver Line, so the SL2 down to Design Center doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t quite maintain its true geographical relationship to the Red Line now, extending far further south than it should. However, I think this is a worthwhile tradeoff, as the Silver Line is now a lot more legible and attractive. The new SL3 up to Chelsea integrates itself into the network very cleanly, I think. In a little bit of a cheat, I haven🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t used accessibility icons for the Silver Line in order to make the map a bit less cluttered, although its full accessibility status is noted in the legend at the top.

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