Tag: transportation
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
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?
