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Well, it is likely recognisable for someone who have used it in the past. I was looking for some features that make it stand out. The Peru flag is one of the most recognizable because of its shape. The American one because, well, America :)
Am I missing something? The Peru flag is a 2:3 rectangle, which is the most common flag shape.
> He added: "I also thought, 'Let's get the geography as well because, with maps, shapes and geography are important. Funny. I remember watching a design documentary years ago where they made the exact opposite point: subway maps were trying to get the geography right but that became unwieldy and confusing, so the epiphany was that connections mattered more than the geography. That the way people were using the maps…
I'll never forget the day I thought I might change from one station to the next by walking, because they were right next to each other on the metro map – only to discover they were actually a couple of miles apart. Or the time a relative visiting the city took the wrong train because when they needed to go north, the metro map showed northbound trains as eastbound in that area. I think there is a compromise to be mad…
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I'll never forget the day I thought I might change from one station to the next by walking, because they were right next to each other on the metro map – only to discover they were actually a couple of miles apart. Or the time a relative visiting the city took the wrong train because when they needed to go north, the metro map showed northbound trains as eastbound in that area. I think there is a compromise to be mad…
That is a good map. It is also, crucially, so very much simpler than the London Underground one. At a certain point that stops being as feasible.
This is far more difficult to follow than the normal one. Some lines, particularly London Overground on the North side of the city, are all over the place.
> A TfL spokesperson said the original Tube map was "an iconic piece of world-renowned design" and there were no plans to change it.
Unless the station wayfinding is all going to be relabeled hubwards/rimwards/turnwise/widdershins then this circularized map is just confusing.
Also, how do you make a circular tube map and not make the circle line into a circle?
Who actually needs a map? It seems to me that an app that tells me which route to take is a faster and easier way to navigate the underground.
Reading maps is a learned skill. It gets faster with practice. Also, important to keep both on hand in case of emergency. It would suck to be stranded underground without service or sense of direction.
Not sure I enjoy it. It's aesthetically pleasing at first, but then it just annoys me. All maps have problems with representing distance and space in a 2D form, but this become a little absurd. As an artistic experiment I'd give him a pass except he explicitly said: "Let's get the geography as well because, with maps, shapes and geography are important. Let's try to make my map better than TfL in every way". He then…
This is the thing people forget about maps - any map is a falsehood, because it's not the thing mapped. It has a purpose and will bend various things to best serve that purpose. A subway map is NOT a walking map; it's (usually) a guide to the transit system and how to get from station to station.
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I'll never forget the day I thought I might change from one station to the next by walking, because they were right next to each other on the metro map – only to discover they were actually a couple of miles apart. Or the time a relative visiting the city took the wrong train because when they needed to go north, the metro map showed northbound trains as eastbound in that area. I think there is a compromise to be mad…
On the other hand, there are two stations on the Berlin map which look quite far apart but are easily walkable in 5 minutes.
