On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, james007 wrote:

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?

Well, if they were really intent on doing a lot worse, they could print it
upside-down and leave the station names off .

Jonathan's managed to strip all geographical cues out of this,

No he hasn't - it's still got bends in roughly the right places.

and a Beck-style diagram for a one-line system is pointless.

I think i agree - a map like the on-board maps (basically just a straight
line) would be better.

I suspect that he, and you, don't understand why Beck designed his diagram
the way he did;

Come to think of it, nor do i; i'd assumed it was basically the best way
to lay out a correct topological map (ie if you have lines and crossings,
there is no simpler way). Is there more to it than that?

but please don't give the guy a plaudit for badly ripping-off someone
else's work.

Oh come off it - it's hardly like he's claiming he's invented that layout,
is it? It's a deliberate homage to the mother of all metro maps, and it's
both usable and nice-looking.

Anyway, on the subject:

http://www.delhimetrorail.com/home/sphase1.jpg

If the Blue Line were Green, it'd be a dead ringer for the Central/East
London/District line system - ON ACID!

tom

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