I have created a map of the Amsterdam tram network as it was in 1930. In this year, the network reached its greatest extent in terms of number of lines: 25.

It was rather easy to find out the trajectory of each line, as there are plenty of digitised resources available online. I used another map I created last year of the current tram network as a base, and made the appropriate changes from there. I mainly wanted to show the underlying structure of the network in 1930 (which is strikingly similar to today🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s) and the trajectory of each individual line.

Initially, I didn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t plan on including individual stops, primarily because I couldn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t find a good source for it. Someone else pointed me to a digitised copy of a booklet from 1930, including all stops for each line, available online via the website of the ‘Stadsarchief Amsterdam🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 (Amsterdam city archives). That allowed me to figure out where the stops would have been back then, though I didn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t label them, as that would have distracted from the original purpose of this map.

The map legend shows all lines with their route signs as they were in shown on the front and back end of each car, including the original line colours. These line colours are still displayed on today🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s (digital) tram displays, though they have lost their original meaning a long time ago.

If you want to read more about the design process, please visit my blog. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s in Dutch, but I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m confident Google Translate will do a pretty decent job translating it to English [I can confirm that this is the case – Cam].

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Now, this is a project that I heartily endorse, having now done many similar maps myself. And this one🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s a beauty that really highlights just how similar the network in 1930 is to that of the modern day: there may be less routes now, but they still traverse much the same routes as then.

What really makes this piece work for me is the attention to detail. The diagram uses multiples of 30 degrees to draw its route lines—immediately evocative of a hexagon—so Alain uses the hexagon as a motif throughout the map. Numbered route bullets, station dots and even the decorative border framing the diagram all get the treatment, yet it never looks overdone and the whole design remains nicely understated. Particularly nice is how the symbol for one-way stops are a “slice” made by overlapping two hexagons and removing the part where they both overlap. Both the rather lovely typeface and the old-time spelling of place names give the diagram some lovely verisimilitude as well – these really sell it as a period piece.

I also welcome the inclusion of the distinctive coloured patterns used on each route🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s headboard in the legend, as these are such a distinctive feature of old tram lines (Sydney also used a very similar system). Some say that these headboards were designed to assist illiterate riders, but I always feel that they just made each tram more easily-identifiable at a distance.

Alain🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s handling of the insane terminus at Amsterdam Centraal is pretty awesome, with all the lines that go around what must have been a very crowded loop collapsing down to one line with the cross-town lines “bumping” around them. Line 22, which looks like it just made clockwise laps around Amsterdam Centraal (to the ferry terminal on the IJ?) is a very curious thing indeed! I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d perhaps like to see this level of detail extended to all the turnaround loops and one way sections that the system used, as I find that type of thing fascinating, but I can also see why Alain opted not to.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final rating: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A gorgeous 🔸澳州10开奖记录 that I could look at for hours. Great work, Alain!

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I’m a Dutch information designer and design school teacher. I would like to submit my map of the Amsterdam Metro and Train network for y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划review.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

Jaap actually sent me a version of this map quite a while ago, and I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m sorry to say that it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s been languishing in my inbox since then. Which is a bit of a crime, because I think this is an excellent, compact little diagram. By eschewing geography almost entirely (only the IJ is included for orientation and there🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s no attempt at all to render Amsterdam🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s famous canals), Jaap has been able to condense the network down to just its essential elements.

The Metro lines are clear and bold with clearly labelled stops, and the train lines fit nicely into their supporting role. The underlying grid is solid, and the layout allows the type for the labels to be set nice and big. While no routes or service patterns are indicated on these train lines, a reader can quickly and easily see that there are connections from Schiphol Airport to Amsterdam Centraal Amsterdam Zuid and RAI just by following the route lines. Simple, but effective.

Jaap🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s made the interesting decision to change some of the line colours away from the official ones (the M50 switches from green to orange; the M51 from orange to cyan; while the new M52 is purple instead of cyan). In his previous submission, he said that this was to increase contrast between adjacent route lines, which certainly is an issue with the official orange/yellow/red combination of lines out of Amsterdam Centraal. Jaap also notes that “together, the new line colors form a rainbow flag, a reference to Amsterdam’s progressive values and support of gender and sexual diversity”, which is actually a pretty neat little piece of design.

My complaints are very minor – Schiphol is misspelled as “Shiphol”, and the curve on the rail line out of Muiderpoort towards Amsterdam Amstel seems like it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s been cut off a little short 🔸澳洲开奖 compared to other similar curves on the map.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测Compact and minimal, this is a superbly legible diagram that doesn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t waste a single bit of space. I🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页m not entirely sure that designers should normally unilaterally decide to alter official line colours, but Jaap uses his changes to teach a good lesson about using contrasting adjacent colours. Nice work all around!

Here’s a really nicely thematic diagram of the future 2019 Amsterdam Metro, once the 52-Noord Zuid opens and the 51 gets demoted to “express tram” south of Zuid station and wil be routed around the loop to Isolatorweg instead.

This is hardly the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划circular Amsterdam map I’ve featured on 澳洲10开官网开奖 (see this from way back in 2012), but I do really like the way Alain has thematically tied the whole thing together with the theme of “time”. The new Noord-Zuid line becomes the hands of a clock, while the second smaller circle can perhaps suggest an hourglass 🔸澳洲开奖 combined with the larger one. Even the typeface – Futura – is suggestive of the theme of moving towards the future.

On a technical note, I’d like to acknowledge the work that Alain’s done to make the two circles relate to each other visually. The main circle is divided into 22 equal parts (there’s room left for three stations between CS and Isolatorweg), while the smaller circle has 13 stations. Alain has used that 22:13 ratio for the circumference of each circle, so that the stations have the same space between them, regardless of whether they’re on the large or small circle. Mathematics!

The coastline at the bottom left gets a little complex compared to the simplicity of the rest of the map, and all the type is angled (but at least all on the same axis!), but otherwise this is really quite lovely. The single thin black tick across the route lines to indicate a station is simple and effective, even on stations like Utrecht with multiple lines passing through.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Fantastic early-1970s European design. Clean and elegant. Four-and-a-half stars!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Wikimedia Commons – I’ve cleaned up and brightened the picture for publication a bit

The latest iteration of my Amsterdam tram map. I’ve been working on this map almost continuously since its inception in 2004. I made the original map in MS Paint and switched to Adobe Illustrator in 2007. 🔸澳洲开奖 I did, I also decided to upload the map to Wikipedia. It featured on almost all Wikipedia lemmas about the Amsterdam tram system until earlier this year, 🔸澳洲开奖 someone decided to replace the map with another one. Out with the old, in with the new, I guess. That hasn’t stopped me from contributing new versions, though.

As the file history shows [at the bottom of this Wikimedia Commons page – Cam], the map has gone through various major and minor design changes over the last nine years. I switched the background color from light to dark to light again, made various changes to the line layout, experimented with different solutions to show in-system transfers and transfers between the tram and metro system, changed the design of the line overview, etc. The changes are too numerous to sum them all up. It’s what I like most about map designing: the broader strokes are usually being set early on in the design process, but it’s the almost endless range of possibilities of portraying a certain piece of information that allows for endless iterations.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

This is a good, solid diagrammatic map, Alain – definitely forged and refined through multiple iterations over the years. It’s certainly come a long way even since y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划initial Wikipedia version from 2007 (red text on a purple background: what were you thinking?).

That said, I think there’s still some room for further improvement, especially with the interchanges. The concept behind a bounding box indicating a major interchange is sound – and a refreshing change from Underground-style circles or dumbbells – but the box can be a bit hard to make out at stops with multiple lines passing through it. The stops west of Dam on the 12/13/14 lines illustrate what I’m talking about here. Perhaps bringing the boxes to the top of the stacking order would help them remain visible, or the size of the box could be adjusted to properly enclose all the relevant routes.

Transfers between tram lines and the Metro are also a little problematic: I feel that the “tick” used for Metro stations sits a little awkwardly within the bounding box. Maybe a black circle could work, or – as previous versions used – a circle with an “M” for Metro could be employed.

I’m also not entirely sold on the need to differentiate between the Metro and “sneltram” parts of the 51 Metro line: it seems to me to be an operational consideration that doesn’t really affect the users of the system. You get on the train at Centraal Station, you get off the same train at Amstelveen… the change of power supply from overhead to third rail at Station Zuid doesn’t affect the journey from a wayfinding perspective at all.

Finally, I think more care could be given to some of the labelling. Hyphenation should be used as an absolute last resort on a transit map and I see too much of it here. Line breaks should also be optimised to enhance readability of stop/station names. For example:

2e v.d. Helst-
straat

would read better as:

2e van der
Helststraat

and the awkwardly three-lined

Ceintuur-
baan/Van
Wousstraat

has plenty of space to be reconfigured into the much more readable:

Ceintuurbaan/
Van Woosstraat

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Overall, I do like this map: it’s clean, simple and generally easy to use. The shape of the routes themselves evoke Amsterdam’s famous canals, even without geographical clues. Some more finessing (what’s a little more after 12 years, Alain?) and this could be really lovely. 3 stars.

The simplified rectilinear grid is such a familiar form for 澳洲10开官网开奖 that 🔸澳洲开奖 we see something that breaks that mould, the results can be visually stunning. That’s certainly the case with this beautiful map from designer Erik Hammink, who uses the natural circular shape of Amsterdam’s canals to great effect.

Have we been there?🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Yes, although I’ve only used the tram network rather than the Metro service.

What we like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Lovely, minimalist European design, with echoes of 1930s Art Deco transit posters in its stylised, circular rendering of the IJ and the Amsterdam Metro type to the top right of the map. Beautifully clear and easy to read. I especially like the rendering of Amsterdam’s ring of canals, which orients the user perfectly.

What we don’t like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 The need to adhere to the radial spoke design form means that some of the curves where routes change direction look a little uneven. The icon for Schiphol airport looks very large and out of character compared to the smaller, more elegant icons for the Metro and rail termini stations. The gradients behind the legends at the top of the map look a little modern and iOS-like compared to the beautiful retro feel the rest of the map has.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Stunning work, especially 🔸澳洲开奖 you also know that Eric has also produced a map of Amsterdam’s dense tram network that appears to fit onto the same radial grid. A true lab🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划of love, and it shows. F🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Eric🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Behance project page