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In part 1 I’ve covered the difference between the Beck’s London underground map, our Ekaterinburg metro map, and the Vignelli’s and Hertz’s maps of New York subway
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In the first part I’ve covered the difference between the Beck’s London underground map, our Ekaterinburg metro map, and the Vignelli’s and Hertz’s maps of New York subway
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For many people, a map of a transport network is a given, an expected part of a system, something that just is — like a fire escape plan in a building
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In the previous two parts, we’ve figured out that the preferred distortion and layers depend on the map’s supposed use case