The London subway – err, Tube – recently released a geographically accurate map of the complicated system’s many stops and tunnels. The mess of curving colors is a fairly drastic change from ...

And people hated it. Vignelli’s map was replaced with a more geographically accurate map in 1979, one that was closer to what people imagined the city looked like, but harder to read.

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replaced with a version of the messy but geographically-accurate version in use today. A rare interview with Massimo Vignelli on type, his NYC subway map design & what is important in #design ...

Courtesy of Ben Schmidt Not so surprisingly, Schmidt’s visualization of New York City’s subway reveals that the MTA has one of the more geographically accurate subway maps around: it’s ...

But Transport for London (TfL) has revealed a geographically accurate map of the Underground network , with a surprising distance between many iconic platforms. The historic Metropolitan line is ...

“The paradox about a map,” says Andrew Lynch, “is that it’s just as much about what is shown as what is not.” He would certainly know. The CUNY Hunter graduate writes extensively on his ...

and not just with electoral maps: A geographically accurate map can underrepresent minorities or put more visual weight on large western states. These kinds of maps have their problems ...

I had made track diagrams before but it occurred to me that if they weren't geographically accurate then what I was proposing might not be feasible. So I started making small sections of the map ...

Riding the subway as a kid it used to bother me that the MTA’s map of the New York subway system distorted the underlying geography of the city so badly. But this cool graphic made by Peter ...

Geographically accurate tube maps are nothing new — in fact. TfL has previously released its own one into the wild. What designer Mark Noad has done is a little different: his latest tube map is ...

Geographically accurate tube maps are nothing new — in fact. TfL has previously released its own one into the wild. What designer Mark Noad has done is a little different: his latest tube map is ...