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.

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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!

This is my 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划attempt at drawing a transit map (or using Inkscape for that matter). It’s Amsterdam’s metro system, which is a relatively simple system. The zones, on the other hand, are not! You can check out the outrageous zoning of Amsterdam’s public transport system here. Some stations lie on zone borders, which means you can travel from within either of those zones to that station while staying in a single zone. Other stations lie very close to borders, but are not on it. All very confusing, but with some help of the Amsterdam public transport company (GVB) I figured it out.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

For a 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划effort, these are rather lovely, Michiel! I like the intelligent use of 60-degree angles to mimic the real-world layout of Amsterdam, and the way that the new Noord-Zuid line slashes through the centre of the map, and the way that that diagonal then continues all the way down to Westwijk… a great visual axis for the whole map.

Of the two, I have to say that I prefer the zone-free version, although I can understand the usefulness of the one featuring zones. I find the colours a little too bright, and the shapes a little too blobby… smaller corner radii might help here. The zone colours are unfortunately at their worst in the Amsterdam Centrum zone, where the grey is so tonally similar to the blue of the canals that it makes them difficult to make out. One has to ask why this zone needs a background col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划at all. It’s surrounded by other zones and the IJ, so it could quite easily remain white. This would also draw attention to its pre-eminence as the most important/most central zone of the network.

While we’re speaking of zones, is it necessary to show zones that can’t be reached by Metro on this map? See 5710 and 5714…

Now the big problem: for three-quarters of the map, you do a great job of labeling all the stations horizontally… but then you get to the south-east corner and everything is suddenly angled. It looks strangely inconsistent, and it’s pretty much the 🔸澳洲10定位胆全天计划thing I noticed about the map. With some tweaking, I think that you could get everything nice and straight. The hardest part will be Veensepolder and Diemen Zuid, but once you solve that, everything else should fall into place pretty easily.

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 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.

A rather odd way of showing the same line going in two different directions. This layout suggests there are two different lines, splitting in two separate branches from the current station. This photo was taken at Amstelveenseweg metro station, Amsterdam. It’s part of the new route signage.

澳洲10开官网开奖 says:

This certainly is a peculiar way to indicate travel in two completely opposite directions from the one station, and I’m guessing it’s been done because of physical space limitations on the signage. As Amstelveensewag only has a single island platform, I don’t actually see this diagram causing too many problems in this instance… but I’d be interested to see how (or if) it works at a more complex interchange station.

Railkaart (dutch for rail map) of Amsterdam. Train, metro and tram only, no buses. Consider the big airplane as icon for Schiphol Airport (no tram or metro connection). And the ‘Vondelpark’ with strong typography.

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This is one of those maps that has all the ingredients🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of a good transit map, but somehow ends up being much less than the sum of its parts. As Bruno suggests, much of this comes down to the lack of polish on the final product.

He rightly points out the oversized aeroplane icon for Amsterdam Schiphol airport (why indicate it so prominently on the map if neither🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of the two modes shown on the map actually go there?), but I also take issue with most of the other icons, which tread a very uneasy path between detailed “3D” drawings of landmarks and strangely “clip art-y” lion heads, buffalo (!) and tulips. Some of the landmark icons are thickly outlined in black, making them look a little cartoon-like, while others—like the Amsterdam Arena—are not. From different original sources, perhaps? All in all, they’re a pretty inconsistent bunch that really don’t gel very well with each other.

The rest of the map is full of other little problems that—for me, at least—just detract from the overall quality. An example is the inconsistent placement of labels at the termini of the Metro lines: there’s simply no reason for all of them to be placed completely differently in relationship to their line numbers. There’s also some poorly nested corners with some of the route lines, especially to the immediate west of Overamstel station. There’s more, but you get the idea.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 I realise that I’m probably making this map sound a lot worse than it is—the routes are easy enough to follow and the map certainly isn’t hideous—but all these little niggles just add up to an unsatisfying experience. It’s certainly a far cry from the beautiful🔸澳洲幸运10预测 diagrammatic map Amsterdam had in the 1980s. Two-and-half stars.

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