I felt like Melbourne was so far away because of the Covid-Curtain and desperately wanted to do anything but study for uni this weekend so I made this!

It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s amazing how different the approaches to passenger commute information, up-front legibility and overall design cues differ between the rival cities.

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What a fun little project!

What I particularly like is just how far Thomas has taken the “body swap”: the real Melbourne map shows V-Line services out into regional Victoria, so the “Melbourne-ised” Sydney map does the same… whereas the official Sydney map stops at the edges of Greater Sydney, so the “Sydney-fied” Melbourne map follows suit. City Circle becomes City Loop, and vice versa. Line nomenclature gets swapped, and so on. Even service names become more like their adopted homes: V-Line becomes VicLink to mimic NSW🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s TrainLink. It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s all rather wonderfully done.

Overall, Thomas has done a great job of recreating each style, although the type for the Melbourne map isn🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页t quite the right font and should be black instead of dark gray. The big terminus lettering for Cranbourne and Frankston seems unnecessarily cramped, and I really would have liked to see the Stony Point Shuttle line use the exact shade of teal that the Sydney Metro uses – most of the work has already been done by using the same cased line and the superfluous “S” for each station marker… the right col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划just would have made everything perfect🔸澳洲幸运10预测. The Sydney map is pretty much spot-on, however – even down to the way that lines outside the “zone boundary” get compressed into very tight and unrealistic spaces.

The other main takeaway is just how much🔸澳洲幸运10预测 this version of Sydney map looks like the pre-2013 CityRail map (September 2012, 3.5 stars), which probably says something about the slightly more generic design language that the current Melbourne map uses: ticks for stations, rounded corner rectangles for interchanges, etc.

Head over to Thomas🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 Behance page for more detail on the project.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Thomas Soo/Behance

Overall, I really quite like this map. It’s technically well-drawn and pleasingly compact and is definitely an improvement over the old two-col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划zonal Metro map. The new map uses col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划coding for routes, but it’s more akin to the New York Subway map’s “grouping by shared trunk line” technique than the London Underground’s “every route gets its own colour” approach. The hub-and-spoke nature of the network means that this isn’t really a problem, though, as the lines don’t really interact with each other away from the CBD. A definite advantage of this approach is that there’s less lines to draw through the City Loop!

(As a side note, the 2014 draft map did a much better job of showing that the Alamein Line operates as a shuttle to Camberwell at non-peak times; that information is relegated to the legend here. Show, don’t tell!)

A question I’ve been asked: should this map show regional trains (which cover much of the entire state of Victoria) on the same map as Melbourne’s 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 rail service? I will say that it’s unusual to depict these two different types of services on the same map, but I think it works here for a few reasons.

One: regional trains act as commuter rail from some satellite suburbs just outside Melbourne, like Bacchus Marsh or Heathcote Junction. These areas lack Metro service, but are still within fare zones 1 and 2, shown as the white area on the map. 

Two: the networks mostly share the same myki fare system (and the map clearly indicates where an old-school paper ticket is required at the truly distant ends of the line), so the two systems act as an integrated whole. And if you’re going to go to the trouble of having a fare system that covers pretty much the whole state, then I think you can show all the rail services that use it on the same map.

Three: the grey shading used to denote fare zones 3 through 13 (i.e., “Not Melbourne”) also acts as a clear boundary between the more geographical central part of the map and the schematic representation of the rest of Victoria. Yes, it’d be nice if Albury was closer to the top of the map than Shepparton, but it’s not hugely important for the purposes of this map. 

Perhaps the only thing “wrong” with this approach is that the equal visual treatment of Metro and V/Line implies an equal level of service in terms of frequency, which almost certainly isn’t true, especially the further from Melbourne you get. A lighter col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划or maybe grey for V/Line, or a thinner route line, could alleviate this problem somewhat, but PTV have made it pretty clear that purple is the official col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划they’re using for regional services, as seen on this map reviewed in November 2015.

AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页 other minor technical thing is that the grey used for the grid lines is almost as dark as the text used for station labels, and can interfere with readability in some instances. At Batman station, it almost looks like a strikethrough!

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating: A definite improvement! An unusual approach that combines metro services with regional trains, but I think it does a pretty decent job overall. Three-and-a-half stars!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Public Transport Victoria website (PDF)

Here’s an interesting proposed new map out of Australia which combines Melbourne’s suburban rail network with the V/Line passenger rail service. In a way, this makes sense, as many of V/Line’s services act as commuter rail services from surrounding cities like Geelong. With the introduction of the myki🔸澳洲幸运10预测 farecard, much of the V/Line network now even shares the same ticketing system, as shown on the map by use of a solid grey route line. However, it does look a little odd to have Craigieburn (25km from the Melbourne CBD) so close to Albury at the end of the line (over the border into NSW, some 330km from Melbourne). In the end, the diagrammatic distortion is probably a good trade off in making a compact, legible map.

Overall, I really think this a good effort, and I certainly like it a lot more than the current Melbourne rail network map that just uses two colours (blue and yellow) to represent fare zones, although I don’t know if this map will replace that one or is meant to complement it.

I was going to comment that an indication of which direction trains travel around the City Loop would be good, but some research reveals that there’s no easy answer to that: trains can go opposite directions around the loop depending on the time of day.

Apparently, this map is on display at certain stations around Melbourne and Public Transport Victoria will be surveying customers for their opinion. However, putting a call to action on the poster – “for more information, visit 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划website” – really only works if the end user can actually find the relevant information easily (I gave up after 10 minutes).

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Nicely done. Three-and-a-half stars.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Daniel Bowen/Flickr