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Submission – Unofficial Map: RFTA Winter Bus Service in Aspen, Colorado by Joseph Van Harn

April 1, 2020

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Aspen, BRT, bus, Colorado, Joseph Van Harn, RFTA, Roaring Fork Transportation Authority, submission, USA, VelociRFTA, winter

Submitted by Joseph, who says: I recently completed an unofficial map of Roaring Fork Transportation Authority winter bus service in Aspen, Colorado (80 x 40 cm, Affinity Designer). I decided to take on this project in response to the official maps’ collective failure to portray the system’s Upvalley services. RFTA’s system map lacks detail south of Brush Creek and directs the viewer to a nonexistent “Aspen inset,” and the City of Aspen’s bus map shows […]

Submission – Unofficial Map: Bay Area Transit Strip Map by Fern Kusnetzoff-Hahn

March 30, 2020

Submission – Unofficial Map: Taipei Metro by Memphis Sun

March 4, 2020

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Asia, high speed rail, light rail, Memphis Sun, metro, submission, subway, Taipei, Taipei Metro, Taiwan

Submitted by Memphis, who says: This is a redesign project of the Taipei Metro Map with aims to enhance the legibility. I first tried to make something like this three years ago, when I was a college student. Back then, to pursue an excellent looking, I gave up a lot of detailed information and lower the font size, the result looks cool but yet not practical (the older version). After three years, I think it’s […]

Submission – Unofficial Map: Bucharest Metro Diagram by Alexey

February 28, 2020

Submission – Unofficial Map: Greater Tokyo Railway Network, 2020 by Bernie Ng

February 7, 2020

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4 stars, Asia, Bernie Ng, commuter rail, Japan, JR East, passenger rail, shinkansen, subway, Tokyo, Tokyo Subway, tram, Yamanote Line

Submitted by Bernie, who says: It’s been a while! I’m wondering whether you would be interested in taking a look at a diagram I have completed recently, showing all railway lines (except local or in-park people movers, such as the Disneyland monorail) around the Tokyo conurbation. I welcome any and all feedback! Transit Maps says: What an undertaking, Bernie! Mapping Tokyo’s subway lines alone is a huge challenge, let alone every darn rail in the […]

Unofficial Map: German Intercity Rail Network, 2020 by u/theflyingindonesian

January 27, 2020

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4.5 stars, DB, Deutsche Bahn, Europe, Germany, high speed rail, passenger rail, theflyingindonesian

Thanks to everyone who has alerted me to this rather wonderful map of the German Intercity rail network, created by a Reddit user known only as “theflyingindonesian”. This is actually something that I thought about tackling after I finished my French TGV network map way back in 2011, so I know how daunting and complex a project this is! If you’ve never seen the official Deutsche Bahn diagrams for these networks, prepare to be very […]

Revised Unofficial Map: Copenhagen Rapid Transit Map by Kristoffer Bæk and Pasha Omelekhin

October 1, 2019

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4.5 stars, commuter rail, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Metro, Denmark, Europe, Kristoffer Baek, metro, Pasha Omelekhin, passenger rail, S Tog, subway

Sometime after I reviewed Kristoffer’s original unified Copenhagen-area transit map (January 2019, 4 stars), he began to collaborate with Pasha Omelekhin, a designer probably most well-known for his alternative Berlin map. They’ve just released their revised map, and it’s really quite wonderful. Designwise, it’s definitely an evolution of Kristoffer’s original map, but I can see where the collaboration has resulted in marked improvements to the map. The interchanges have a more consistent design now, one […]

Submission – Unofficial Future Map: San Diego Trolley by Ted Rosenbaum

August 28, 2019

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bus, California, light rail, MTS, passenger rail, San Diego, San Diego Trolley, submission, Ted Rosenbaum, USA

Submitted by Ted, who says: When the Mid-Coast extension opens in a couple years, San Diego’s going to need a new trolley map. Their current map has some odd angles and no references to the city’s geography, so I took a shot at a new diagram that fixes those issues. I used big looping curves to fit San Diego’s more languid style, and make the connecting services more explicit. Would love to get your thoughts […]

Submission – Unofficial Map: Circumvesuviana Lines by Harry

August 27, 2019

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3 stars, Campania, Circumvesuviana, commuter rail, EAV, Europe, Herculaneum, Italy, Naples, Pompeii, submission, Vesuvius, volcano

Submitted by Harry, who says: Hi Cam – I’m a big fan of your blog, been reading for years. I’ve always wanted to try designing a transit map, but hadn’t found a good system to start with (I live in NYC, which is both daunting and already done well)… until recently! I visited Sorrento in June, and had the chance to ride the Circumvesuviana from Naples to Sorrento and round-trip from Sorrento to Pompeii. Something […]

Unofficial Map: Berlin Rail Network by Niklas Lobmayr

May 27, 2019