Recently, Google released its new version of Maps. Naturally, when I heard that you could sign up for a preview trial, I had to try it. This morning, I opened my email to find a link to the new site and began exploring. The new Maps is fully interactive, integrating streetview, Google Earth as well …
Part 1: Where we are now Part 2: What’s wrong with transit maps Last week we talked about some of the issues in transit maps today. We are going to go over some of those same issues and talk about how to fix them in a broad sense, creating a new strategy for building transit …
In this recent article, NJ Transit gets ripped a new one for its policies during Superstorm Sandy. The article goes along with this FOIL request for the NJ Transit Hurricane Plan. Put the two pieces together and a compelling story of poor planning, mismanagement, disaster and ignorance emerges. While the article details the variety of …
Part 1: Where We are Now In the second installment in our series about making the case for better transit maps we are going to look at some of the common mistakes that are made in transit maps. We are going to point out what, in our opinion, are some of the most common …
Part 2: Whats Wrong with Transit Maps Today we are starting a new series on the blog, one that we (and many readers and followers of the transit industry) have been researching and discussing for a long time: why we need better transit maps. At Carticulate a lot of our core work is around building …
It appears that Google Maps has been using open source DIY maps to improve their own site. We recently noticed that our balloon map of Kukuiula, HI was up on the Google site- it turns out we’re not the only ones. In a recent article by the Atlantic Cities, it is clear that balloon maps …
Everyone loves the London Tube Map, the iconic jumping off point for so many of today’s transportation maps. How did did Harry Beck get it right and what makes them so effective? Let’s look at it from a technical perspective: 45 and 90 degree angles, thin lines, circular transfers, and no reference to geography other …
Brooklynites know what JJ would do! Save Coney of course. Photo Credit: http://douglashaddow.tumblr.com/post/464272281 Welcome to what hopes to be the first of many WWJJDs – “What Would Jane Jacobs Do?” While a cursory google search will show that I am not the originator of this phrase, this series hopes to pose legitimate, modern planning/cartography questions …
