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All symbolic metro maps work ignore physical locations in order to make labels and lines readable and clearly visible.
by BerislavLopac 7y ago
All symbolic metro maps work ignore physical locations in order to make labels and lines readable and clearly visible.
- bobthepanda 7y agoMost transit maps will generally try to preserve direction, though, in that A east of B will not all of a sudden wind up northeast or north of B. There are exceptions but the amount of directional liberties is fairly small on a standard map. A significant portion of the NYC map is not only spatially but directionally disoriented, which is just confusing. Especially since New Yorkers have a good grasp of the relative directions of things due to the fact that the grid is so prevalent.
- semi-extrinsic 7y agoThe London map has both of these problems as well, it is both spatially and directionally disoriented, and not an improvement over the existing tube map.
- jcranmer 7y agoPersonally, the Toronto map bothers me far more than the NYC map, because here the Toronto street grid is depicted as a NE/SW alignment instead of N/S... and Toronto is closer to a true N/S alignment than Manhattan, which gets a N/S alignment on the map.