Comments on: Hyperlinear BART Map

By: Rare Hectic Energy vs Slavish Geometric Inaccuracy « Burrito Justice

Rare Hectic Energy vs Slavish Geometric Inaccuracy « Burrito Justice — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:38:03 +0000

[...] valid justification for the new map. And why, yes, I will show you with pictures. (I’ve been meaning to draw up better diagrams contrasting the London Tube and SF BART maps, so here we [...]

By: xkcd Star Wars Character Proximity Map « Burrito Justice

xkcd Star Wars Character Proximity Map « Burrito Justice — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:23:25 +0000

[...] this looks like a subway map! (Especially given R2, 3P0 and Chewie are [...]

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:48:29 +0000

So the London transit managers removed the Thames from the Tube map. The mayor was unamused and had them put it back.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6201988/River-Thames-restored-to-London-Tube-map-by-Boris-Johnson.html

(I somehow don’t think Gavin will get involved here.)

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:24:43 +0000

Aha! Thanks for the Ken Garland recommendation. Will definitely check it out. That is indeed a great quote from Beck.

By: BART, Use This Map « Burrito Justice

BART, Use This Map « Burrito Justice — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:44:38 +0000

[...] Use This Map Don’t get me wrong, I like my reductio ad absurdum BART map (and if I may say so myself it looks quite good on a black t-shirt). But it was a parody, [...]

By: johnny0

johnny0 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:37:06 +0000

I love this quote from a Guardian article a few years back.

“No, it’s definitely not a map. A map is geographic. This is a diagram.” Beck would have averred. The engineering draughtsman of Finchley referred to his creation as the “London Underground diagram”.

Also, “Mr Beck’s Underground Map” by Ken Garland is supposed to be a good book.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:00:50 +0000

Nice hyper-straightened version. BTW, there was a time when humankind actually hadn’t developed the idea of an abstracted, simplified metro map and the maps of the London Underground were so realistic and respectful of actual geography that they were basically nonfunctional. The first abstracted/simplified map was an unsolicited proposal that a draftsman named Henry Beck drew in 1933, who hand-lettered thousands of letters in the London Underground typeface in the process. It’s interesting, as you point out, that the process of abstraction can reach a point of diminished returns when it erases something as recognizable as the curve in the Mission or the Bay.

By: Today’s Mission: 09.19.09 | Mission Loc@l

Today’s Mission: 09.19.09 | Mission Loc@l — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:36:37 +0000

[...] post of a few days ago, Burrito Justice has posted a revised, apparently Tron-inspired hyperlinear BART map. It’s really nifty looking, so nifty in fact that they went ahead and made t-shirts out of [...]

By: burritojustice

burritojustice — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:41:26 +0000

@DaveO, do you think I should nudge Castro Valley to the right a little bit?

By: DaveO

DaveO — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:34:53 +0000

I LOVE the reductio ad absurdum version. Just fix the Castro Valley error and this is brilliant.