Submitted by Ray, who says:

Here’s Best Impressions’ new tourist bus map for encouraging people to get out and about to explore Yorkshire using the Transdev bus network. The map is intended to highlight the richness of attractions and destinations in a pictorial style. It’s included in our our “Amazing Days in Yorkshire” leaflet, just released.

Transit Maps says:

While I don’t want to get in the habit of acting as a PR agent for various transit mapping/wayfinding companies, this attractive birds-eye map definitely caught my eye. It’s bright, colourful, and easy to understand, yet it’s also filled with enough interesting details to demand more detailed perusal.

The towns and sights of Yorkshire are shown with just enough unique detail to make them distinctive and easy to recognise, from the ruins of Whitby Abbey to the National Railway Museum in York, and more. I’m probably showing my age here, because I totally get the “Aidensfield Garage/police car” reference to the long-running TV series Heartbeat at Goathland.

If I have any minor quibbles, it’s that the perspective sometimes seems a little wonky and that – for me at least – everything looks a little too perfect due to the sharp vector-based illustration. A little bit of roughness and texture could perhaps have made things look a little less “shiny”.

Overall, though, I really quite like this map. In conjunction with the information in the accompanying leaflet, this provides a good overview of tourist-oriented bus services in and around Yorkshire. Also, you’ve gotta love Witchway and Bröntebus as names for routes! 3.5 stars!

Compare to this 1950s British Rail poster of Yorkshire.