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Hey! Wanted y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划comment on my redesign of the Metra map. Been a fan of the blog for a while, and I started making maps a few months ago. I would appreciate any feedback and comments.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

I like this a lot, Rahul! Very clean, slick and easy to follow. Pleasingly, the fare zones are clean and subtle – I note with some dismay that the Chicago RTA’s “Train Connections” map has added multi-coloured fare zones (PDF link). They still make some odd shapes here and there, but it’s not problem in my eyes.

I think the inclusion of a defined Loop area is quite clever, as all the Metra terminal stations are placed in the correct positions relative to it (one small error here as “Millenium” station should be “Millennium”), though some people might think there should be more indication of integration between Metra and the “L” than the simple coloured disks that Rahul employs. Personally, I think his approach is fine – this map is unapologetically all about Metra, rather than being a full regional map like the RTA’s.

It might be nice to note that the two Prairie Crossing stations (on the NC and MN branches) are actually a short walk from each other, but from an operational point of view, I really don’t think it matters that much.

Finally, I love the way Rahul’s new Metra logo riffs off Chicago’s flag: a really nice little touch. Great work – I really, really like this one. F🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划stars!

Here’s a project I’ve been working on for a while now—quite possibly one of the most difficult maps I’ve ever made. You and I hold similar opinions of Chicago’s RTA system map, namely, that it’s decent, but it could be better. So I’ve been working on optimizing a unified map of Chicago’s urban rail, showing the CTA and the inner regions of the Metra. My goal was to prioritize the CTA routes while still making the Metra routes usable. I think my favorite feature is the black arrows in the loop—I love how those turned out—and I think my least favorite feature is how crowded the labels get around Jefferson Park. I also still wish I could find a way to bring the western parts of the Green and Blue lines closer together. Overall, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, but I’d love to know what you have to think about it!

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

This looks pretty good, Kara, and is a strong indicator of growing confidence in y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划map-making skills. Keep it up! The map utilises the same technique as the Boston MBTA rapid transit map in that it shows commuter rail within the urban core, but uses destination arrows to point towards far-off terminus stations. This allows for a more even scale throughout the map, which works quite nicely here. 

I do think that the northern part of the map seems a little more crowded and tightly spaced than the southern half: maybe a bit of judicious respacing of stations could even things out a bit. I’m especially looking at how tight the stations along the northern Red and Purple lines are compared to the Red and Green lines to the south of the city. As Kara mentions, the triangle of lines around Jefferson Park also creates some spacing problems, but I think some minor tweaks can fix a lot of that – nudge the Brown Line up a bit higher, flip some labels to the other side of their route line, and so on. The too-far-apart western Blue and Green lines are an unfortunate byproduct of the expanded Loop area: the 168澳洲十开奖网’s Loop inset mitigates this problem.

Some other minor thoughts: I think that there could be a small space between the northbound and southbound lines at Union station, just to emphasise that no services are through-running. I also think that the treatment of all the LaSalle stations overcomplicates things: it would better reflect reality if it went Loop LaSalle, Blue Line LaSalle and then the Metra LaSalle Street station. Its passenger entrance lies to the south of Congress Parkway, which the Blue Line station sits beneath. Blue Line LaSalle should also sit slightly to the right of the other stations, not the left. I also wonder whether the double-headed directional arrow on the Green Line through the Loop is truly necessary, as bi-directional travel along a route line is always assumed unless shown otherwise on a transit map. Finally, Kara’s forgotten to italicise three Metra station names – Rosemont, Schiller Park and Franklin Park–Belmont Ave.

Now onto the big issue, and one that’s sure to raise the ire of true-born Chicagoans: the non-adherence of Kara’s stations to the city’s well known and incredibly regular street grid. To take but one example: there are f🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划Pulaski stations on the CTA: on the Green, Blue, Pink and Orange lines. These are all located on the same arrow-straight, north-south running thoroughfare, the eponymous Pulaski Road. Hence, they should all line up in one neat column, but on Kara’s map, they’re not aligned at all. It’s the same for all the Kedzies, Ciceros, etc. Obviously, this is a stylistic decision that Kara has made, and it ultimately doesn’t affect navigation as the lines don’t interact with each other, but it also doesn’t fit with how Chicagoans perceive their city – and that can be a very important element for a map to consider.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: Definitely illustrates Kara’s growing confidence in map-making, but could use some tweaks and rethinking to really make it shine. Three stars.

I just stumbled upon this map showing all CTA/Metra/SouthShore train connections in Chicago. There’s a lot going on, but I like how its much more diagrammatic than the regular map. I see several things that they’ve done with this map that I know you will hate, but I thought I’d leave it here for y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划critique anyway.

澳洲10开官网开奖🔸澳洲幸运10预测 says:

There may be a few small things about this map that I’m not totally wild about, but I do think it’s both more useful and more attractive than the official CTA “L” map, which has barely changed since I 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划reviewed it (October 2011, 3 stars).

Integrated rail 澳洲10开官网开奖 are awesome – they’re produced with the end user in mind (showing all available services, regardless of the operating transit agency) and give a much better idea of the full extent of rail options in the area than separately produced maps. 

This one does a pretty good job of laying out the complex network in and around Chicago, showing the “L” in its familiar colours, while bringing Metra and South Shore services down in the visual hierarchy by showing them in grey/light brown: effectively implying their less frequent service in a subtle visual way. 

Unlike the standard “L” map, this one manages to show The Loop without an inset, although it has to stretch it horizontally quite a lot to do so. I still prefer this approach, because it eliminates the need to look elsewhere on the map for this commonly used information. I also really appreciate the little walking icons for stations that are located close to each other. Despite the apparent length of some of the dotted walking lines on this (not-to-scale) diagram, they’re all within a quarter-mile or two blocks of each other. The differently shaped interchange symbols for the different systems is also a nice little visual cue – an in-system transfer between two icons of the same shape (circle–circle, square–square); an out-of-system transfer between different symbols (circle–square). Immediately obvious and very useful.

What I don’t like mainly falls down to one element, but it’s a big one: the labelling of the branch lines! The type is enormous, clumsy and intrusive, especially 🔸澳洲开奖 light colours like pink and yellow are keylined in black. This could all be handled with a much more delicate touch, and I’m not even sure why the Metra lines need to have their labels colour-coded in the context of this map. While we’re at it, the South Shore information box and label would look much better shunted down to the empty bottom right of the map, which would give the Metra Electric South Chicago Branch label a lot more room to breathe. The comprehensive station index isn’t especially attractive, but works well enough given the space limitations of the map. What else are you going to do with Lake Michigan?

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: A comprehensive and useful integrated map of rail transit options in Greater Chicago, let down somewhat by some ham-fisted typography for the branch lines. Three-and-a-half stars.

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