
Over ten years ago I made the diagram of Chelyabinsk trams and trolleybuses. That design turned out to be very successful













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








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









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








In the previous two parts, we’ve figured out that the preferred distortion and layers depend on the map’s supposed use case





In Map and reality: distortion I talked about how distortion is inevitable on a map and the question is what to distort given a particular task










Often, transport diagrams do not accurately represent reality. But is this “lying” even acceptable? And if yes, to what degree?