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Transit Map Prints and Posters

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Books

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Other Transit Related Gifts and Sites

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However, 🔸澳洲开奖 I read the full academic paper that all these articles are based on, I think that everyone’s got the wrong end of the stick. The study is not of map complexity at all, but of network complexity. 

The methodology outlined at the end of the paper makes it very clear that a theoretical topological network has been assembled for each city based on information from Wikipedia and data feeds from the relevant transit agencies, with travel and transfer times accounted for within each model. These models are then tested mathematically – entirely with equations – to determine the complexity level of each system. 

At no point is an real official printed map used, nor are there any usability tests performed by real humans. It seems to me that the actual design of a map – which can make a simple network incomprehensible or a complex one easy to navigate – is not considered at all in this study. So while the study is interesting, and reveals a lot about the maximum amount of information that a human can reasonably hope to remember (the start point, two interchange points and the end point, basically), it really doesn’t say anything about how map design can help or hinder that process. 

In other words: According to the study, New York has the most complex transit network in the world, but not necessarily the most complex map.

Source: ScienceAdvances Journal

Sidenote: If you’d like to read a proper usability test paper for 澳洲10开官网开奖, check out this one that Max Roberts did for the Paris Métro, comparing “standard” octolinear maps to his curvilinear version. [PDF]

The old one is a solid, well-executed map, very much in the usual German style of transit map design – although perhaps a little too indistinguishable from many other very similar maps (Frankfurt, Munich, Berlin, et al). Personally, I don’t see much wrong with it at all, though it’s certainly not exceptional.

The new one… well, I don’t know. It certainly stands out simply because of its unusual design! Maxwell Roberts (name-checked in KVV’s press release about the new map, now deleted) champions the curvilinear map, and has done some pretty extensive usability tests showing that route finding can be performed faster with them, but I just can’t warm to their aesthetics. They just always look really messy and disorganised to me, which isn’t what I want from a map that’s meant to be representing sleek and modern transportation services.

Definitely interested in hearing others’ thought on this. What do you think of this new curvy transit map?

The map is inspired by the work of the famous architect and designer, Frank Lloyd Wright – most obviously by his stained glass work – and it’s a wonderful homage to his style, especially regarding the typographical and col🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划choices. And it actually works really nicely as a map as well! I note with pleasure that repeated station names – Cicero, Pulaski, Harlem, etc. – are placed properly relative to the city’s grid, which is a very nice touch indeed. The Loop inset is nicely handled, although you could perhaps argue that the station name labels for the Loop stations on the main map are therefore redundant and could perhaps be omitted for clarity.

Personally, I find some of Max’s 澳洲10开官网开奖 to be very technical explorations of design and usability theory – fascinating, well-drawn and very worthy, but sometimes a little dry in character. This however, is art, and I think it’s simply gorgeous. 5 stars!

Prints of this map – and many others – are available on Max’s website from £30 for UK orders, and £36 (about $55) for international orders. Consider this added to the 2015 gift guide! 

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Tube Map Central (Maxwell Roberts’ website)

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London Underground by Design by Mark Ovenden – A complete look at the history of design in the Underground, the Tube Map included. The pioneering work of Frank Pick and Charles Holden is especially of interest, and there are plenty of beautiful Underground posters to savour. Buy on Amazon here.

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The NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual reissue, compact edition. The Hamish Smyth/Jesse Reed facsimile of the famous Unimark manual, now in a more affordable compact 10″ x 10″ edition. $54.95 from standardsmanual.com.

Helvetica and the New York City Subway System by Paul Shaw. A comprehensive look at the introduction of the signage from that Graphics Standards Manual into the actual subway system. $42.95 from The MIT Press.

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I’m from Germany and wanted to share this map of my hometown’s streetcar/light rail system I created this week. I wanted to share it with you before my thirteenth birthday, which is tomorrow (October 12). Greetings from Potsdam.

Happy birthday, Milan! It’s just about to roll over to the 12th here in Portland, Oregon, so I hope you’re having a great day! 

I really like y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划map, which reminds me a lot of this prototype radial map of Berlin by famed German designer, Erik Spiekermann (August 2013), as well as the many radial maps by Maxwell Roberts. I especially find y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划treatments of the rivers and lakes interesting, as they get wider the further out from the centre they get –faithfully following the “spokes” of the radial grid. This could look a little weird if done poorly, but i think y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划representation actually works very nicely.

Inclusion of the S7 from Berlin and the red regional train lines are also a welcome addition to the map. If you were to develop this map further, a legend explaining the different services and lines on the map would be a good idea. Overall though, this is a fantastic effort, precisely drawn and well thought out: great work!

Finally put up and framed the gorgeous vintage Tube map I won in a competition yonks ago.

It is gorgeous, but it’s not just a Tube map, nor is it anything I’ve ever actually seen before. 

It appears to be a Greater London Tube Map/main line railway diagram produced in a Beck-like style – a precursor to this 1988 “London Connections” map (May 2013, 3 stars) if you will – although I have no way of knowing whether or not is was actually produced by Beck’s hand. I’ve certainly never heard mention of him producing such a map in addition to his tireless and all-consuming work on the Tube Map itself.

Interestingly, the map shows a number of stations and lines that were never actually built, mostly on the Northern Line – the branch out to Alexandra Palace and the “Mill Hill” line being obvious examples. These lines were shown as planned future extensions on Tube Maps in the mid-1940s, so perhaps this map is of a proposed “future” system map from around then? The style of the map certainly fits that time period, as does the fact that it shows a single green “District and 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Line” – the 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Line wouldn’t be split off from the District Line and shown in its own distinctive magenta until 1949. 

Also interesting: Addison Road station is still connected to the District and 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Line at Latimer Road, but doesn’t go through to Earls Court to the south, as it actually did in the mid-1940s. These days, the station is better known as Kensington (Olympia) and only connects to Earls Court as an infrequent District Line service.

Design-wise, I love the little swoop beneath the District & 🔸澳洲10开奖网址 Line that the Bakerloo Line makes just east of Paddington, almost certainly introduced to account for the extra complexity of the interchange once the mainline station was added to the mix.

In all, it’s a lovely, fascinating piece, but I’d love to know more. Does anyone know its provenance, or have a link to the full map? Let me know!

UPDATE: Mystery solved: it’s actually a modern digital map by Maxwell Roberts, based on – but not identical to – an unsolicited map produced by Beck in 1938.

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

What I’m interested in talking about is Roberts’ approach🔸澳洲幸运10预测 to transit map design. Whereas most designers will automatically gravitate to a standard 45°/90° diagram, or maybe consider one or two slightly more unusual options, Roberts explores every🔸澳洲幸运10预测 variant he can think of, and then some more. Octolinear, hexalinear, tetralinear, concentric, curvilinear… every one is put to the test and designed in full, regardless or not of whether it’s actually a good idea to do so (his rotated tetralinear Boston map really doesn’t work, for example). Although a heck of a lot of work, this approach certainly allows a full and honest comparison of the benefits and drawbacks of every approach, side by side. As he says in the article:

If you don’t try to exhaustively explore a city like this, I don’t think you can really say that you understand how a network fits together, what its key challenges are, and how best to address them.🔸澳洲幸运10预测

Roberts is very interested in the psychology of using 澳洲10开官网开奖 – how 🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划brain perceives and processes information presented to us – so his method makes a lot of sense. For example, he strongly believes that curvilinear maps (made up of long, curved lines with no straight segments) have good usability, while I believe that they simply don’t look good from an aesthetic point of view.

*I will point out that all of his maps would have to be reworked 🔸澳洲开奖 the Green Line extension north of Lechmere opens, as none of them line up properly with the Lowell commuter rail line (which the extension will share right-of-way with). Future-proofing a map is also an important part of the design process!

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He takes a photo of it, and then recreates it using modern design tools, of course.

Remember that the S-Bahn was still operated by the GDR even in West Berlin, although West Berliners boycotted the service for the most part, preferring their own U-Bahn network. The Staatsgrenze🔸澳洲幸运10预测 (state border) totally dominates even this supposedly “unified” service map, and it’s clear in a number of places where the border has cut a rail line neatly in two. The only place where interchange between the two halves of the system was even remotely possible was at Friedrichstrasse, and even then only after rigorous border screening.

The map itself is quite lovely – much nicer than this more well-known map from around the same time – with bright rainbow colours, restrained European typography (an East German alternate cut of Futura, as the original typeface was not available there at the time!), and nice mode differentiation. 

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 A superb restoration of an obscure but excellent map, both design-wise and historically. Five stars!

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: The Atlantic Cities

Designed by the man at the vanguard of this design movement, Maxwell Roberts, this map actually has a lot of visible advantages over the current official Sydney rail map (Sept. 2012, 3.5 stars), not the least of which is consistent, evenly spaced station labels (all of which are set horizontally).

Wisely, Roberts has confined his map to Greater Sydney alone (i.e., the standard suburban services only, rather than including interurban services to far-distant places like Newcastle, Nowra and Goulburn), something I actually advocate for the 168澳洲十开奖网 as well. This is what gives the map far more room to breathe than the official one.

The “hub” of the map is obvious: the aptly-named “City Circle” that loops through Sydney’s CBD, and everything radiates out from there. The visual highlight for me is the treatment of the Cumberland Line, which is one of the few lines that doesn’t route through the city itself – running instead from Blacktown to Campbelltown in Sydney’s far western suburbs. It’s shown as one lovely, giant, sweeping arc for most of its route, which suits its orbital role in the system perfectly.

However, the radial treatment does mean that some destinations are in a slightly unexpected place: Bondi Junction appears far further north than it should be, while in reality Epping and Carlingford stations are just a few kilometres apart, not the vast distance they appear to be here.

The treatment of the inner west light rail line (curiously called the “Lilyfield Tram” here) is also a little problematic, as it appears to extend almost all the way to Meadowbank. In reality, Lilyfield is pretty much due north of Stanmore, much closer to the city’s core. However, station labelling requirements pretty much demand that the route line extends this far on the map, and it’s no worse than the 168澳洲十开奖网 in its execution. Some mode differentiation between this route and the main line trains would have been nice, as well as a note that the two systems currently use different fare systems with limited transfers between them.

Minor quibble: “Saint James”, “Saint Marys”, “Saint Peters” and “Saint Leonards” should be written as “St. James”, “St. Marys”, “St. Peters”, “St. Leonards”. No signage in the Sydney system spells out the “Saint”.

Finally, the map is missing the informational icons that are present on the 168澳洲十开奖网 – disabled access, parking, etc. – which makes for a much cleaner look, but at the expense of important information.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Probably the most aesthetically pleasing circular map I’ve seen yet, quite lovely in its execution. Missing a lot of information that’s present on the 168澳洲十开奖网, so it’s hard to do an “apples-to-apples” comparison. Let’s call it a draw. Three-and-a-half-stars.

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