In my city there was, for a brief time, a neat combination of the two. It was visually stylized with simplified geometry for easy reading, but it sorta-kinda in

In my city there was, for a brief time, a neat combination of the two. It was visually stylized with simplified geometry for easy reading, but it sorta-kinda indicated real distances and directions. I really miss that one -- seemed like the best of both worlds to me. ---- Found it: https://people.kth.se/~e95_lra/tunnelbana/bild/linjekarta.gif https://people.kth.se/~e95_lra/tunnelbana/bild/linjekarta.gi... Which is to compare against the highly stylised one: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nSNE5wTaCGA/VDZiVonjldI/AAAAAAAAQ5Y/i-OkDypiV8U/s1600/tunnelbanan.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nSNE5wTaCGA/VDZiVonjldI/AAAAAAAAQ5... And, well, something more realistic: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BPoNTy6r7UI/VDZiXCe5oEI/AAAAAAAAQ5g/h4YEDTzZHCo/s1600/subway_stations_small.jpg https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BPoNTy6r7UI/VDZiXCe5oEI/AAAAAAAAQ...