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Re: Models of European metro stations

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Post by Mordisquitos »

lucianbr wrote: post #90
hbarka wrote: post #69

This is a remarkable feat. Amazing. I’d like to add an interesting metric: density of subway/metro stations as measured by number of stations per square kilometer. In European cities, City, Metro System, Stations, City Area (km²), Density (stations/km²): 1. Paris, Metro de Paris, 244, 105, 2.32 2. Berlin, U‑Bahn only, 173, 892, ~0.19 3. London Underground (London Tube), ~270, 1,572, ~0.17 4. Madrid, Metro de Madrid,…

Is Paris 6 times smaller than Madrid and 15 times smaller than London? Seems suspicious to me. What exactly is the boundary of this "area" and how does it relate to the subway network?

A significant proportion of the administrative area of Madrid is covered by fenced-off forests. Plus it covers other swathes of non-developed land and even most of its airport. The administrative area of Paris proper, on the other hand, is fully urbanised. See here for comparison:

+ Madrid: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5326784

+ Paris: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7444

London is a whole different animal. While Madrid and Paris are arguably "similar" cities in terms of urban design and residential density, London and UK cities in general are completely different.

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Post by qweiopqweiop »

diggan wrote: post #79

This is amazing, seems really detailed and leveraging official sources too, nice job! Since the author seems to be Catalan, I'll shamelessly plug a Metro-station-relevant event that is ongoing right now in Barcelona: There are many "ghost" metro stations in Barcelona that been popular (at least used to) urban exploring destinations. Two of those, Gaudí and Correus, are now opening to the public via tours, if you regi…

Thanks for sharing. London has these permanently, and while not cheap, they're very much worth it too.

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Post by raverbashing »

decimalenough wrote: post #26

Here's a zoomable 3D model of the world's busiest train station, Shinjuku in Tokyo: https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/ 3.6 million passengers per day . Wikipedia: The main East Japan Railway Company (JR East) station and the directly adjacent private railways have a total of 35 platforms, an underground arcade, above-ground arcade and numerous hallways with another 17 platforms (52 total) tha…

Yeah that makes Exit 8 looks like Child's play

Saint-Lazare being the most complex one that I saw personally (got lost, I mean)

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Post by eigenspace »

This is pretty shockingly detailed. I zoomed into my city of Cologne germany thinking there'd be nothing showed here since we don't have a 'real' metro but rather a Stadtbahn system that's partially separate from the street grid and partially on the streets.

Turns out they had excellent descriptions, models and info of all of our stations.

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Post by dddw »

tremon wrote: post #99
dddw wrote: post #4

Nice! Would nice to have Maashaven Rotterdam, being the highest elevated one in the Netherlands. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maashaven_metro_station

With "highest" being a mere ~15m above sea level :p

Yeah all the Dutchies get vertigo there :D

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Post by rsynnott »

fredoralive wrote: post #48
rsynnott wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The trams also switch to the left side as the doors are only one side. ... Wait, what? That seems like a serious false economy...

Buses also have the doors only on one side usually, if you're just running trams on the surface in traffic you'll probably only need them on the pavement side of the vehicle. It's just got weird in this case the assumption the choice was made on changed after they already had a fleet.

Feels like you're limiting your options quite significantly, though. It's not just underground; elevated trams will often have island stops, and even street-level ones do sometimes.

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Post by 62 »

numpad0 wrote: post #87
kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is India considered central Asia? I've always seen it referred to as south Asia, and former Soviet countries like Kazakhstan have been referred to as central Asia. I think India is east of these "central Asian" countries. Perhaps this is all a bit of pedantry.

I was mistaken, I meant to say South Asia. Central was more like north of India/China...

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Post by 62 »

Mona4000 wrote: post #93
tkiolp4 wrote: post #52

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If only 1% give money to homeless people, that’s… a good place to beg for money. I would probably make more there than what i make at my fancy software engineering job (100K before taxes per year): - 36000 people - let’s say each give 10 cents ($) - that’s $3600 per day - if you beg 8h per day, that’s $1200/day - begging mon to fri means $24000 per month (tax free)

Begging is illegal in Japan.

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Post by walterlw »

diggan wrote: post #81
baubino wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course they know where the stations are. But they don’t necessarily know the precise local of all the underground tunnels, exits, mechanical rooms, equipment, etc. The underground network is far more complex than what the consumer map hanging on the wall in the station shows.

During the Cold War, Russia managed to map huge parts of the world, sometimes with higher quality and more accurate measurements than the countries themselves! Especially noteworthy considering that some of those countries (like the UK) were trying their hardest to prevent those sort of maps being made in the first place, yet the Russians ended up with better maps of the UK than UK themselves. Considering that that h…

I'd like to remind you that Russia is not the USSR. Surely the technology has significantly improved since, but some capabilities are definitely lost. One example is them not being able to build more strategic bombers.

Re: Models of European metro stations

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Post by bambax »

benoitg wrote: post #7
bambax wrote: post #5

This is insane. Never saw anything like it. One minor nitpick: zooming the map is very slow (maybe Leaflet is not the best choice?). And the main station in Paris is missing: Châtelet-Les Halles. Other than that, incredible work!! Amazing.

Châtelet is there, you have to click on the 3D icon to experience the full majesty of its unending corridors in 3D

Indeed it is, I don't know how I missed it the first time!
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