Submitted by Bruno Heemskerk, who says:

Flixbus is quite a new company with bus services between several European countries.

Transit Maps says:

This is another good example of what I call a “boast map”, in that it shows the impressive extent of the network, but reveals very little about actual routing (that’s for the website to tell you). For example, a little poking around on that website tells me that you can only directly reach other destinations within Italy from Naples, and would have to change buses to go farther afield.

Speaking of Naples, I find it very odd that it’s jammed up hard against the bottom edge of the map (and shown at the same latitude as Rome!) when the almost completely empty Sweden gets so much space all to itself at the top of the map.

The map itself is a nice combination of geographic reality and stylised route lines, although I think the routes are way too thin. They’re almost exactly the same weight and colour as the international borders shown on the map, which is pretty inexcusable, really. I do like that the major destinations get a visual boost with big orange dots, and having airport connections denoted is a nice touch. I also like the way that areas where the destinations are too tightly bunched to label properly on the map are instead given a number, and the names of the towns are instead given in the legend for each corresponding number.

Our rating: Looks impressive and has some nice aesthetics, but don’t try using it to plan a trip by itself! Two-and-a-half stars.

See also: This interactive destination map on the Flixbus website, which is much better for helping you work out where you can actually go from each city.