In article ,
(Ian Davidson) wrote:

The Hiawatha Line is opening 3 April in Minneapolis. It's a light
rail
project:
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/metro/lrt/
I didn't care too much for their map, so I made my own:
http://ae.ath.cx/hiawatha/hiawatha.jpg

Excellent!! They could do a lot worse than pay you a royalty and
adopt your solution.

Why?

Jonathan's managed to strip all geographical cues out of this, and a
Beck-style diagram for a one-line system is pointless.

I suspect that he, and you, don't understand why Beck designed his diagram
the way he did; but please don't give the guy a plaudit for badly
ripping-off someone else's work.

j