The New York City Subway Map as You’ve Never Seen It Before (nytimes.com) 55 points by pseudolus 6y ago ↗ HN
[–] w0uld 6y ago ↗ Looking at the 1978 subway map[1], I better appreciate the improvements since. It seems less daunting to someone who's never visited NYC yet.[1] https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/calcagno... [–] intsunny 6y ago ↗ Its stunning how geographically incorrect that map is. I can't believe the MTA/NYCTA/whatever would ever approve such a map. [–] floatingatoll 6y ago ↗ That’s a topic of a lot of discussion by transit planners. For example:https://humantransit.org/2013/11/should-transit-maps-be-geog...> The geographic map helps you locate yourself and points of interest in the city, but you need the structure map to understand how the system works. [–] wholepointofcc 6y ago ↗ A subway map is only incidentally supposed to be geographically correct. It needs to be basically a graph diagram, ideally with distances weighted by travel time. [–] viburnum 6y ago ↗ That’s not an official map. This was:https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1... [–] w0uld 6y ago ↗ The point was to give perspective to the redesigned map.
[–] intsunny 6y ago ↗ Its stunning how geographically incorrect that map is. I can't believe the MTA/NYCTA/whatever would ever approve such a map. [–] floatingatoll 6y ago ↗ That’s a topic of a lot of discussion by transit planners. For example:https://humantransit.org/2013/11/should-transit-maps-be-geog...> The geographic map helps you locate yourself and points of interest in the city, but you need the structure map to understand how the system works. [–] wholepointofcc 6y ago ↗ A subway map is only incidentally supposed to be geographically correct. It needs to be basically a graph diagram, ideally with distances weighted by travel time.
[–] floatingatoll 6y ago ↗ That’s a topic of a lot of discussion by transit planners. For example:https://humantransit.org/2013/11/should-transit-maps-be-geog...> The geographic map helps you locate yourself and points of interest in the city, but you need the structure map to understand how the system works.
[–] wholepointofcc 6y ago ↗ A subway map is only incidentally supposed to be geographically correct. It needs to be basically a graph diagram, ideally with distances weighted by travel time.
[–] viburnum 6y ago ↗ That’s not an official map. This was:https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1... [–] w0uld 6y ago ↗ The point was to give perspective to the redesigned map.
[–] ac29 6y ago ↗ Huh, the title made me think there was a new map. This is just a deep-ish look at the current one.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 28.6 ms ] thread[1] https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/calcagno...
https://humantransit.org/2013/11/should-transit-maps-be-geog...
> The geographic map helps you locate yourself and points of interest in the city, but you need the structure map to understand how the system works.
https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/caption.pl?/img/maps/system_1...