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I’m not with the haters here, I think this is a very clever solution that encodes a lot of information concisely. Human beings have an amazing ability to under
by fnordpiglet 4y ago
I’m not with the haters here, I think this is a very clever solution that encodes a lot of information concisely. Human beings have an amazing ability to understand symbology no matter how complex and while it might take a few days for folks to get used to it, once they do it’ll be simple and intuitive. I don’t buy the arguments here that it’s cryptic - labeling a bus M74 tells me nothing and is a totally opaque synthetic identifier that requires a lookup in a table i may not have. Knowing my destination symbol I can quickly ascertain from this scheme if this bus is one I want. Someone pointed out though that many lines can service the same stop and some are more optimal than others. So I think you need to encode some ordering somehow, which I know adds another element of information to encode.