The TRANSIT MAPS thread (hand-drawn or computer-generated, all are welcome) - Page 2

Cirrus · #21 Posted **Sep 21, 2004, 1:49 PM**

Should work now. Yesterday I accidentally chmoded my whole website to 600.

giovanni sasso · #22 Posted **Sep 21, 2004, 6:20 PM**

that'll do 'er.

JC, have you sold any of those? if not, what are you waiting for?

the following is a map i threw together in about 20 minutes, but i've been meaning to expand on it. you guys may have inspired me ...

Cirrus · #23 Posted **Sep 21, 2004, 9:10 PM**

Old school awesome.

J Church · #24 Posted **Sep 21, 2004, 10:51 PM**

i hope that took more than 20 mins.

theodore · #25 Posted **Sep 29, 2004, 12:15 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by J Church

photoshop. never had occasion to learn illustrator.

No Illustrator? Really? I can't even think of how you made those maps without it.

Cartographic genius, I tell you!

giovanni sasso · #26 Posted **Sep 29, 2004, 1:29 AM**

oops, sorry JC. i meant the train part. i have the original map (created in macromedia freehand, embellished in adobe illustrator) in a "shitload" of layers, including streets and parks and such. speaking of which, i see that i left the green thingy for parks in the legend then didn't leave the parks layer turned on. brilliant.

anyway yeah. just the train part took 20 minutes. almost as long as it took me to explain this.

Xing · #27 Posted **Oct 2, 2004, 3:35 AM**

Wow, these are fantastic. I have to find myself a better copy of illustrator. The one I have no doesn't seem to have all the correct tools.

MSPtoMKE · #28 Posted **Oct 24, 2004, 7:08 AM**

Here is a little diddy i put together from seperate Maps. It is a complete Track Map of the Chicago L, compiled from segmented maps available from Chicago-L.org. I basically put them together in Photoshop and adjusted a lot of the spacing so that it would match up, added colored stop indicators, subway sections, and cleaned up a lot of text, etc... Here is a small version:

And here is a link to a much larger legible version (~1 meg): http://www.boomspeed.com/atucker7/Ch...p3_reduced.jpg

Born Pure Philly · #29 Posted **Oct 24, 2004, 3:54 PM**

Wow thats really cool, it looks really professional.

Cotuit · #30 Posted **Oct 30, 2004, 12:26 AM**

BOSTON | MBTA

Xing · #31 Posted **Nov 3, 2004, 5:25 AM**

Cirrus · #32 Posted **Nov 6, 2004, 11:29 PM**

My vision for expanded MARC/VRE service:

Xing · #33 Posted **Nov 7, 2004, 2:37 AM**

NICE!! ^

Here's a new updated St. Louis map I'm doing. I'm going to do my own symbols and things later. For now I just used some from Illustrator.

CTroyMathis · #34 Posted **Nov 28, 2004, 4:59 PM**

Very nice indeed.

Smiley Person · #35 Posted **Dec 1, 2004, 6:10 AM**

Are there any transit systems that don't use the bold colored lines and sans-serif font style on white background style?

J Church · #36 Posted **Dec 5, 2004, 3:31 AM**

^ i may have seen a serif font and pastel bg here and there.

haven't checked this thread lately, but very, very nice.

gnix, i esp. like your stuff.

J Church · #37 Posted **Dec 5, 2004, 11:21 PM**

uno mas.

Cotuit · #38 Posted **Dec 6, 2004, 5:38 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smiley Person

Are there any transit systems that don't use the bold colored lines and sans-serif font style on white background style?

I've mostly seen Montreal's Metro map on a black background.

Also, Toronto (pdf) displays their lines on a black map on their website.

J Church · #39 Posted **Dec 8, 2004, 9:13 AM**

alright, another add. i like this one cuz it's 3-D--ohhhh...

dono · #40 Posted **Dec 12, 2004, 6:32 AM**

Wow, what programs are you guys using to make these? I'd sure like to procrastinate by making less amateur maps.

Cirrus, a station at the Diamond in Richmond is useless as anything more than a special events station. A better station sequence south of Fredericksburg would be Bowling Green - Ruther Glen - Doswell - Ashland - Glen Allen - Glendale - Virginia Union/Lombardy - Main St. Station. And I still think commuter rail in Virginia from Martinsburg to DC via Dulles is a better solution than an hour+ Metro ride to Dulles, even if Tysons does need heavy rail.