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>Paris has "grand correspondences" which means the lines link on the map, but in reality are a long way apart So they're not marked with a different color or s

>Paris has "grand correspondences" which means the lines link on the map, but in reality are a long way apart So they're not marked with a different color or something? It just looks like two dots are equally distant, but one set is farther apart than the other? Also is there a french word for "grand correspondences"? I have an interest in urban planning, but I don't speak anything other than English fluently but I'm getting good at reading small bits of text like news articles or signs and translating what I won't know with software, but it's a slow and laborious process -- sorry for the barrage of questions :-)

schoen 4y ago
It seems that a possible French term is "grandes correspondances", but "grandes" means "big" or "great" and some uses of this term seem to refer to important connections or major locations for connections, as opposed to physically distant ones. (Like if we referred to "the biggest tourist destinations", a common interpretation could be the ones that receive the most tourists, rather than the destinations that are themselves largest or most populous.) "Correspondances" are what could be called "connections", "(inter)changes", or "transfers" in English (either locations for, acts of, or opportunities for switching from one transportation service to another). The word is also used for situations like air travel connections, not just subway connections. I only speak a little French and mainly formed these conclusions from some brief web searching just now. :-) This Tweet refers to "la plus grande correspondance souterraine possible sans prendre un seul train" (the largest [i.e., longest] possible underground connection without catching a single train). So, it can clearly refer to a physically "large" distance to travel for a connection. https://twitter.com/ElyssFr/status/1031511189325373440 https://twitter.com/ElyssFr/status/1031511189325373440
- twic 4y ago
  > "grandes" means "big" or "great" and some uses of this term seem to refer to important connections or major locations Another use you will see on railway signage is "grandes lignes", which are the long-distance express services.
gilleain 4y ago
Ithink the term 'grand correspondence' is perhaps less clear than saying an underground map is usually topological not geometric. If you look for 'geometric map tube' (or similar) you can see how the actual positions of the London stations differ from their positions on the standard (topological) map. There is another version of the standard tube map where the connections between stations are labelled with the walking distance between them.

schoen 4y ago

It seems that a possible French term is "grandes correspondances", but "grandes" means "big" or "great" and some uses of this term seem to refer to important connections or major locations for connections, as opposed to physically distant ones. (Like if we referred to "the biggest tourist destinations", a common interpretation could be the ones that receive the most tourists, rather than the destinations that are themselves largest or most populous.) "Correspondances" are what could be called "connections", "(inter)changes", or "transfers" in English (either locations for, acts of, or opportunities for switching from one transportation service to another). The word is also used for situations like air travel connections, not just subway connections. I only speak a little French and mainly formed these conclusions from some brief web searching just now. :-) This Tweet refers to "la plus grande correspondance souterraine possible sans prendre un seul train" (the largest [i.e., longest] possible underground connection without catching a single train). So, it can clearly refer to a physically "large" distance to travel for a connection. https://twitter.com/ElyssFr/status/1031511189325373440 https://twitter.com/ElyssFr/status/1031511189325373440

twic 4y ago
> "grandes" means "big" or "great" and some uses of this term seem to refer to important connections or major locations Another use you will see on railway signage is "grandes lignes", which are the long-distance express services.

gilleain 4y ago

Ithink the term 'grand correspondence' is perhaps less clear than saying an underground map is usually topological not geometric. If you look for 'geometric map tube' (or similar) you can see how the actual positions of the London stations differ from their positions on the standard (topological) map. There is another version of the standard tube map where the connections between stations are labelled with the walking distance between them.