Now🔸澳州幸运彩开奖结果 this🔸澳洲幸运10预测 is a map! This is just superb cartography: detailed, clear and lovely to look at. I love the way that brown is used for mountainous features, and a light blue is used for water features – it allows this information to be visible, but it doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t compete with the overlaid railroad lines. The map is packed with other information as well – note the three rail gauges in use in Argentina at the time.

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Here🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a detail for the area around Buenos Aires – just gorgeous:

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Norman B. Leventhal Map Center/Boston Public Library

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m sure you would find it interesting, as you have attempted to do the inverse of what Sean is doing.

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This map is indeed the exact inverse of my project from 2019 to show the New York Subway in the style of the London Underground diagram, and arguably more successful as it actually works as intended (mine looks great, but is ultimately flawed as it cannot show service patterns).

🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划things 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划– Sean has absolutely nailed🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the New York Subway map style, and perhaps even improved upon it in places – I note with pleasure that all of his station labels are set horizontally, instead of the many varied angles used on the official NYC map.

There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s great attention to detail as well – all of the Tube route line colours have been swapped out with their closest MTA equivalents, meaning the 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Line has the 7🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s purple instead of its traditional burgundy (strangely officially called “Corporate Magenta”). Similarly, all the deep tube lines get letters for route designations, while the shallower cut-and-cover lines get numbers – which emulates the letter/number distinction between the old divisions of the New York Subway.

A couple of minor things: I like to change the background col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划in insets just a little bit to help differentiate them from the main map: just a little lighter or darker can work wonders. Also, I see that Sean is selling prints of this map… so he might want to reconsider that Underground Roundel in the bottom right, as TfL are known to come down hard on any unauthorised use of it.

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 final thing to note is that this map (as awesome as it is) really emphasises just how amazingly compact and space-efficient the Tube Diagram is – it fits legibly onto tiny Journey Planners, while this map seems to need at least an 11″ x 17″ canvas to work.

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

As I worked on my initial map, it quickly became apparent to me that information about the streetcars back then was imprecise, fractured and difficult to find. Books like John Labbe🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Fares, Please! Those Portland Trolley Years🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Richard Thompson🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s series of books about the history of Portland🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s streetcars helped to fill in a lot of the gaps, but they were designed more as historical and photographic records than a technical summary of routings. Information found on the internet was often incomplete, like this list of streetcar lines. For someone trying to piece together how the downtown trolley loops worked, it was a very frustrating time, with lots of cross-referencing required.

So while I did complete a designed map of the lines (as shown here), I also started compiling my findings into an interactive Google Map, accurately plotting each line as it existed in 1920, paying attention to where each line used a private right-of-way, and noting that the streetcars would have used the old🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Morrison Bridge, which actually connected to Morrison Street on the west side.  I added notes on where track, evidence of rights-of-way and other infrastructure related to the system could still be found today, as well as historical photos and notes for things long gone.

Once I finished plotting the streetcar network, I expanded the scope of the map to include all🔸澳洲幸运10预测 electric passenger rail out of Portland in 1920: trolleys to Troutdale, Oregon City, Bull Run and Cazadero; and interurban electric trains running down the Willamette Valley as far as Corvallis, Albany and Eugene. This year was the absolute peak of electrical rail traction; by the end of the decade both the streetcars and the interurbans would already be in serious decline.

Multiple sources were used to compile this part of the map, including historical USGS topographical maps of Oregon, numerous maps and pages from the internet, and even Google Maps itself. I found that if you zoom in close enough, Google shows tax lots, which often still include the otherwise-invisible right-of-way of long-abandoned rail lines.

Some of the old lines still exist much as they did back in 1920,  while others have been repurposed as modern passenger rail – TriMet🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s MAX Blue Line runs on old electric railway alignments on both the west and east sides, as does the WES commuter rail. The old Springwater and Cazadero Divisions now form a walking trail that can take you from inner Portland almost out to Estacada. However, some lines have long since been abandoned, with only those tax lot boundaries or a road that was laid down directly over the old tracks to tell you of its previous existence.

After all that work, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m proud to announce that the map can be viewed below, or you can click here to view it full-screen.

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s still very much a work in progress – I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll add any corrections to it as I find them, and will continue to add historical information and photographs to the map as well – but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m already very happy that I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve created something that consolidates so many different and varied informational sources into one place. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m certainly going to find it useful going forward, and I hope others will as well. 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thoughts about the map in the comments below!

The major revision is a reworking of the main section of the Northeast Corridor between New York and Washington to make things a little clearer. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m still using overlapping “multiplied route colour” lines to indicate identical service patterns, but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve broken the routes down into smaller, thematically linked groups: the three “local” Empire Corridor routes (the Empire Service🔸澳洲幸运10预测, Adirondack🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Ethan Allen Express🔸澳洲幸运10预测); the three “inland” routes (the Cardinal🔸澳洲幸运10预测, Carolinian🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Crescent🔸澳洲幸运10预测); and the three Atlantic Coast/Florida routes (the Palmetto🔸澳洲幸运10预测, Silver Meteor🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Silver Star🔸澳洲幸运10预测). These groupings are reflected in the ordering of the route designation disks at New York Penn Station, and the terminus dot for each group displays all three route colours.

With the help of readers, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve located and added another three stations: the North Carolina State Fair (which, like the New York State Fair station, only operates for the dates of the fair each year); Lexington, North Carolina (which is only open for one day🔸澳洲幸运10预测 each year – for the annual Barbecue Festival held in October); and Hillsborough, North Carolina, which is slated to open sometime in 2015. I also heard tell of a Charlotte Airport extension of Carolinian🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Piedmont🔸澳洲幸运10预测 services, but can🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t seem to find a solid construction date for it, so it remains off the map for the time being.

The Hoosier State🔸澳洲幸运10预测 is back on the map, which did require a change in col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划for the City of New Orleans🔸澳洲幸运10预测, as otherwise the red California Zephyr🔸澳洲幸运10预测 line would have been directly above the similarly-red City of New Orlean🔸澳洲幸运10预测s line, making it look as if one long route extended through🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Chicago. I appropriated the Palmetto🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s🔸澳洲幸运10预测 orange line col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划for this, and made the Palmetto🔸澳洲幸运10预测 a new silver-grey col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划to tie in with the two other routes in its thematic group (the “Silver Service” trains).

On this version, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve also included the now long-suspended section of the Sunset Limited🔸澳洲幸运10预测 between New Orleans and Jacksonville, just so you can see how it fits neatly into the structure of the map. Restoration of this service by Amtrak is extremely unlikely, and I would not include this segment on any final version of this map.

As always, comments are most welcome! Almost there, I think!

Check out the revised second draft of this map here!

At the end of April 2015, Amtrak🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Hoosier State🔸澳洲幸运10预测 service between Chicago and Indianapolis is scheduled to be discontinued — the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划complete loss of a service since I created my “Amtrak as Subway Map” way back in 2010. Over the years, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve been pretty vigilant to changes to the Amtrak network — adding and deleting stations as required, extending the Downeaster🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Line to Brunswick and the Northeast Regional🔸澳洲幸运10预测 to Norfolk — but a change of this magnitude gives me the chance to take a completely fresh look at this project and rework everything from scratch, instead of just tweaking the old diagram again. Let🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s face it – I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve learned a lot🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of new skills and tricks in the intervening years!

(Note: it now seems that the Hoosier State🔸澳洲幸运10预测 will be saved, but its potential demise was still the impetus behind this new version of the map.)

Still, my 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划attempt at a new version proved to be a dead end as I experimented unsuccessfully with 30- and 60- angles. While it worked well enough in the Northeast Corridor, as seen to the left, it rapidly fell apart in the rest of the county, creating a lot of awkward and distracting angles. However, I did like the new typography — utilising the excellent Fira Sans, a huge improvement over the previous Myriad Pro Condensed — and the use of transparency where route lines crossed over each other, which led me on to my next idea.

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 thing that had begun to bother me about the previous version was the sheer amount of routes that had to be shown along the Northeast Corridor. There are eleven🔸澳洲幸运10预测 separate services heading south out of New York Penn Station, and showing them all side by side both took up a lot of space and🔸澳洲幸运10预测 made the stopping patterns of those services difficult to discern. I hit upon the idea of overlaying services that had identical stopping patterns on top of each other, using multiplied transparency effects to layer the colours up on top of each other.

Out of New York, this condensed the eleven route lines down to a far more manageable four: the “all stations” Northeast Regional🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Keystone🔸澳洲幸运10预测 sharing one line, the Acela Express🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Vermonter🔸澳洲幸运10预测 their own lines, and all of the “long-distance” trains sharing the fourth line: these being the Cardinal,🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Carolinian🔸澳洲幸运10预测, Crescent🔸澳洲幸运10预测, Palmetto🔸澳洲幸运10预测, Pennsylvanian🔸澳洲幸运10预测, Silver Meteor🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Silver Star🔸澳洲幸运10预测. As these trains diverge toward their final destinations, their actual route col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划is revealed, as can be seen here where the magenta Pennsylvanian🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and teal Keystone🔸澳洲幸运10预测 lines head east south of Philadelphia. Individually, each of these trains only has one departure daily or fewer (the Cardinal🔸澳洲幸运10预测 only runs three times a week), but the multiplication of their route colours up to a very strong black helps to imply how their combined service — with departures staggered throughout the day — is itself “multiplied” along the Northeast Corridor. I utilised this effect where appropriate across the rest of the map, except in instances where a line runs concurrently with another route for its entire length. Such instances would mean that line🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s signature col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划would never actually be seen on the map. In the image above, the Empire Service🔸澳洲幸运10预测 had to be separated from the Maple Leaf🔸澳洲幸运10预测, as they both run with an identical stopping pattern all the way from New York to the Empire Service🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s🔸澳洲幸运10预测 eastern terminus at Niagara Falls.

Another bugbear from the previous map was corrected this time around: getting the label for Chicago Union Station to fit next to the station itself, instead of having to use a line that pointed to the station from afar. Note also that the two-letter name disks for each train now also corresponds with the position each train occupies in the station, instead of jut being listed alphabetically as they were previously. This new approach is used across the map wherever two or more services terminate at a station.

Overall, I think that spacing between stations is now much more even across the entire map. The huge gap between Alexandria and Lorton on the previous version — a by-product of the huge number of lines in the Northeast Corridor that had to be shown — is greatly reduced, and there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a much more harmonious, even flow all the way down the east coast from Brunswick to Miami. One of my favourite reworks is in Texas (left), where there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s lovely even spacing all the way from Oklahoma City down to San Antonio.  I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m really liking the transparency overlay effects here as well. The whole map is simplified even more than before, eliminating unnecessary changes in direction: the Coast Starlight🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Amtrak Cascades🔸澳洲幸运10预测 don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t take fiddly little curves though Oregon and Washington anymore, for example. Elements align with each other more purposefully than before: the three New England routes — the Adirondack🔸澳洲幸运10预测, Vermonter🔸澳洲幸运10预测 and Downeaster🔸澳洲幸运10预测 —  all have their northmost U.S. station aligned vertically with each other (not geographically accurate, but much neater in a diagrammatic layout like this). While it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s unlikely that Sunset Limited🔸澳洲幸运10预测 service from New Orleans to Orlando will ever be restored post Hurricane Katrina, this map allows for that possibility by setting up a straight horizontal line between New Orleans and Jacksonville, where the Sunset Limited🔸澳洲幸运10预测 used to join the Silver Service🔸澳洲幸运10预测 trains for the leg towards Orlando.

Research for this new map uncovered three stations that I never knew existed — two seasonal stations for the New York and North Carolina State Fairs, and one for large, pre-booked groups at the Col. Allensworth State Historic Park in California — as well as two stations that are due to open in 2015 – Holyoke (Vermonter🔸澳洲幸运10预测) and Arcadia Valley (Texas Eagle🔸澳洲幸运10预测). These have all been added to the map. There🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s still more research and tweaking to go before this version of the map is finalised — I think some of the colours may need to be changed to maximise the overlay effect — but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m pretty excited at the way things are progressing. 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thoughts on it as well.

If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, then H.C. Beck must have been blushing 🔸澳洲开奖 this diagram of railway services in Sydney, Australia was produced in 1939. Designed just six years after Beck🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s famous London Underground diagram 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划appeared, it mimics the original🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s style almost perfectly, even to the point of using an almost exact copy of the  iconic Underground roundel on the cover. If nothing else, it shows how quickly Beck🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s idea was adopted around the world.

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m always on the lookout for great vintage 澳洲10开官网开奖 to add to my online store, but the high-resolution scan of the original map on the Wikimedia Commons (left) is unfortunately way over-sharpened and not suitable for reproduction, even with retouching. So – as is my wont – I decided to redraw it from scratch in Adobe Illustrator.

Technically, the original map is nicely drawn, with fairly consistent 45-degree angles and corner radii throughout. However, there are a couple of spacing oddities that I decided to fix in my version of the diagram. Firstly, the label for Kirkham station on the Camden line was sitting inexplicably higher than the other labels along the same branch; and secondly, I moved all the stations on the Richmond line a little further up and to the left to give the label for Seven Hills station a little more room to breathe. Apart from that, everything is faithfully reproduced from the original.

The typography of the map was a little more challenging than the layout. The notices to the top right of the map are obviously set in Gill Sans, although it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s an ever-so-slightly different cut to the modern digital typeface that I have. However, the rest of the labels are actually very neat and precise hand-lettering, much as Beck🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s early maps had (he described his lettering as “Johnston-like”, as its form somewhat approximated that of the Underground🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s official typeface). Matching hand-lettering with a modern font is next to impossible, so I used one that matched the metrics of the lettering as closely as possible — an almost perfectly circular capital “O” being the major ingredient required. The labels also have some idiosyncratic and variable letter spacing, which I tried my best to emulate. Once I had set all the labels, I converted all the text to paths and roughened them up to simulate the more organic feeling of the original hand lettering. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s not perfect, but it looks pretty good.

Prints of the redrawn map are for sale in my online store, and comments on the diagram are always welcome!

Having found and digitally restored the fantastic 1926 map of the U.S. Highway system,  I started to look around to see if I could find a similar map from the advent of the newer Interstate Highway network. However, all my usual sources (the Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other online research libraries) came up with either nothing or only low resolution scans — certainly nothing suitable for reproduction.

So, what🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a map-obsessed graphic designer to do in this situation? Why, redraw the whole thing faithfully from scratch in Adobe Illustrator, of course!

Getting started, I was very fortunate to have some great assistance via Twitter that helped me on my way. Firstly, big thanks to Eric Fischer, who kindly uploaded a decent resolution scan of the 1947 Interstate Highways planning map to Flickr for me. The image isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t perfect by any means, being spliced together from two separate scans of photocopies from a library book, but was more than good enough to act as a template for this.

Then, Brad Mohr pointed out that the strangely-regular-but-not-quite-typeset labels on the map looked like they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d been made with a  Kueffel + Esser Leroy lettering scriber and templates, which was a huge breakthrough for matching the map🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s aesthetics. A quick search on MyFonts revealed Planscribe NF, an almost perfect match for the labels (based as it is off those original K+E templates).

After that, it was just a matter of carefully replicating the map. I tried to do much of the work manually – without resorting to defaults in Illustrator – in an attempt to capture the spirit of the original as much as possible. This meant that I manually letterspaced all the labels to match the (often idiosyncratic) spacing of the original, and drew the dashed state border lines without using Illustrator🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s automatic dashes function at all. This allowed me to see where the original designer had made decisions on where to shorten or lengthen dashes to fit around labels or add definition to where multiple states abut. All up, this recreation probably took me about 15–20 hours to complete, and most of that was drawing fiddly coastline. The only change I made from the original map was to correct the spelling of Coeur d🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页Alene in Idaho.

If anything, my version is just a little too🔸澳洲幸运10预测 perfect, as the modern tools at my disposal make everything so easy. If I want to draw a 3-point wide line for one of the proposed highway routes, I just set the Pen Tool up in Illustrator, and away I go, drawing bezier curves to my heart🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s content. I can continue to tweak and edit my path long after I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve initially drawn it to make things perfect. So easy. Meanwhile, the original cartographer almost certainly used a ruling pen (which is basically a set of calipers with ink manually inserted between the two blades, held there by surface tension alone – every bit as difficult to use as it sounds) and a set of good old french curves to draw his route lines. One mistake, and the whole map could be ruined.

Even the K+E lettering scriber – an amazing tool in its day – seems ridiculously awkward and clumsy today. Tracing letterforms one by one, moving the whole set up after each letter, filling the tiny ink reservoir again and again, meticulously cleaning it all up after you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve finished… absurd🔸澳洲幸运10预测. Recreating this map has definitely given me a greater appreciation of the skills and patience that cartographers of the day possessed… and thankfulness that I live in a digital age with tools that don🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t need cleaning fluid applied after each use.

This map was so good, however, that 🔸澳洲开奖 they needed a map in 1957 to show how the Interstates would be numbered, they just dusted this one off and plopped the route numbers on top, even though some of the routes had been modified in the intervening decade.

A recent article on CityLabs commemorated November 11, 1926 – the day 🔸澳洲开奖 all the old national road trails were 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划renumbered as the U.S. National Highways System that survives pretty much intact to this day. The article also featured this great map that was produced at the time, and a link to a very high-resolution scan of it over on the Wikimedia Commons.

Being a subject close to my heart (as this highway system is the basis of not one, but two of my “subway map” projects), I downloaded the map and began perusing it eagerly; seeing where the system had changed and where it remained the same. As I looked, I began to see that while the quality of the scan was good, and the content of the map was fascinating, the map itself was in a pretty sorry state. Basically, it looks like you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d expect🔸澳洲幸运10预测 an 88-year old map to look – dirty spots, fold and crease marks, ink that had rubbed off on other parts of the map 🔸澳洲开奖 the map had been folded, and so on.

So I thought I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d do a bit of restoration work and clean this awesome old map up a bit. I used to do quite a lot of photo retouching and image compositing in former design roles, so I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m certainly no stranger to the tools available in Photoshop for this type of work. Most of what I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve done is a combination of the Spot Healing Brush (for easy spot and line removal) and the Clone Stamp tool for more detailed work, or where blemishes were right up against actual printed parts of the map. After that, I applied a High Pass sharpen to the whole map, which both sharpens edges and adds a little more contrast, and finally added a Curves adjustment layer that just brightens the map up just a bit.

The important thing was to not overdo anything: I erred on the side of caution 🔸澳洲开奖 deciding to remove any element, and I haven🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t removed that “old map” feel from the piece. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve included a gallery of before (to the left) and after (to the right) images below, so you can get an idea of the work involved. There was a lot of ink that had rubbed off into other areas of the map where it had been folded, including the whole title of the map, which appeared in reverse across much of Mexico. This and crease marks were what I worked hardest on to remove. All up, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve probably spent 40–50 hours lovingly restoring this fantastic map.

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My version of the map retains all the information that was present on the previous one, but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve placed everything much more precisely onto a more geographically accurate (although somewhat simplified) base map. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve also added a little bit of extra information in the form of contact details (website and phone number) and the general hours of operation. The map was carefully formatted and designed to fit onto a US Letter page with half-inch margins: perfect for printing out at home and bringing along with you for the ride! Great care was taken to keep type legible and clear at this output size — a cause that was helped by the huge x-height of the typeface used (Good Headline Pro Condensed).

Stop names are generally labelled as the road the route line is on, referenced to the nearest cross street. There are a few exceptions made 🔸澳洲开奖 there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s no nearby cross street, or there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s an important landmark close to the stop, like the Dallas Art Museum or the Magnolia Theater. I located all 38 existing stops by “riding” along the route in Google Street View and pinpointing their exact location (which wasn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t always the same as the map view would have had me believe). One final stop – at Cityplace West and McKinney Avenue – proved quite elusive, until an actual MATA operator pointed me in the right direction.

Physically, the map shows an area that🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s only 1.5 miles wide by 2 miles deep, so I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve tried hard to convey the sense of a small, local neighbourhood. A quarter-mile grid overlays the entire map for a quick sense of this intimate scale. DART transit stops – while still shown on the map – have been pushed lower down in the information hierarchy, as I feel their usefulness for local connections is limited in the context of this map. Their presence is only🔸澳洲幸运10预测 there to remind us that this  part of Dallas is connected with the greater metropolis. Instead, I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve placed a greater emphasis on parkland and the Katy Trail, a popular multi-use (bike/pedestrian) path  that links Downtown and Uptown. The trail seems to be a huge part of the urban fabric of this part of Dallas, and its inclusion furthers the theme of local community in the map.

I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ve also made two further versions of the map (shown in the gallery above) that encompass the next two phases of the streetcar line: (1) a spur line down Olive Street that will eventually join up with the original route to form (2) a loop through the Arts District. The locations for the stations on these future maps were guesstimated from the original MATA map, so may be subject to change. The Olive Street spur is under construction right now, and may be opening very soon (although an actual date is difficult to pin down).

If you like the map, please feel free to download a PDF via the button at the bottom of the page. If you find it useful, please let me know. If any future updates to the maps are made, they🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页ll be posted here. Comments, as always, are welcome.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸UPDATE – January 2015: MATA have adopted my map as their official route map on their website! (PDF link)

View the map in the window below: zoom in and pan around to get a good look. You can go full-screen by clicking the icon, or by clicking here.

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Having to show different types of roads on the same map meant that an additional level of complexity was introduced. I decided that stroke width was the best way to differentiate between two-digit Interstate Highways (the thickest stroke at 8 points wide in my working file), three-digit Interstates (6pt) and U.S. Highways (just 4pt wide). As before, bright colours were assigned to the “major” routes as defined by AASHTO: these are two-digit routes ending in “0” and “5”  for Interstates, and “0” and “1” for U.S. Highways. The U.S. Highways use a lighter tint of the corresponding Interstate col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划to differentiate between them if they ever run in close proximity (this is rare, but it does🔸澳洲幸运10预测 happen: I-55 and U.S. 51 share the same roadway out of New Orleans, for example). F🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划different greys are then used for the “minor” routes, with cool greys being assigned to odd-numbered routes and warm greys used for even routes. Minor Interstates are represented in darker greys than the minor U.S. Highways to reinforce their higher position in the information hierarchy.

Roads that touch on the map while running parallel to each other are actually sharing the same physical roadway: in AASHTO-speak, they are “concurrent”. Because of the scale of the map, I can🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t always show where a U.S. Route might leave a concurrent Interstate to serve a town and then rejoin again immediately afterwards.

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Needless to say, this map is physically huge🔸澳洲幸运10预测. My working Illustrator file was a massive 144 inches wide by 88 inches deep and posters are half that size – the smallest they can be and still retain good legibility. So why did I make the map so big and insanely detailed? Why was it important that the individual states retain their actual shape? Because I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m also making posters of individual states and regions.

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