A few weeks ago, i made a fairly rough strip map of almost all Bay Area passenger rail services using some pens and graph paper. I was wondering if you🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d like to review it?

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A nice effort at a Bay Area-wide topological diagram, Fern! It certainly fits into the long, narrow proportions of y🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划average strip map nicely. I particularly like the use of a “half-grid” for the local Muni Metro services. Of course, labelling everything🔸澳洲幸运10预测 on a compact diagram like this can be tricky, so it🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页d be interesting to see how well this concept stands up under that load.

See also:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Burrito Justice🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s “reductio ad absurdum” topological diagram of BART

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]

Personally, I love🔸澳洲幸运10预测 the way that these diagrams look. Simplified down to their bare essentials – connecting points and termini – the systems take on an almost runic appearance. As much as possible, the distance between connection points is kept the same in these diagrams, regardless of the length of the lines in real life.

Obviously then, diagram “A” could represent any🔸澳洲幸运10预测 of the single-line rail systems in the U.S. – Buffalo, Phoenix, Seattle, et al🔸澳洲幸运10预测 – and diagram “B” represents a system (or systems) with just one branch line extending from a main trunk line. It’s certainly a fascinating way to look at something familiar from a different viewpoint, and had me scratching my head for quite a while before Herbie let me in on the answers.

Let me know what you think they are by commenting below. Any guesses?