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

More pictures from the same April trip to Kiev as the recent yards

Designed by Pasha Omelyohin, directed by myself here’s the new version of Ekaterinburg metro map

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?

Check out this new Ekaterinburg metro map