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The Subway Map That Rattled New Yorkers
- Wingman4l7 14y agoA recent & related piece by the NY Times, about the same map: "On the Vaunted City Subway Map, Mistakes and Phantom Blocks" (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/nyregion/on-new-york-subway-map-a-wayward-broadway-and-phantom-blocks.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/nyregion/on-new-york-subwa...) -- courtesy of a tweet from information visualization guru Edward Tufte.
- Wingman4l7 14y agoAlso, a discussion of the 1933 London Underground map design (which the 1972 NY subway map was based off of) on Tufte's website: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00005W http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...