Transit Maps: GIS

Submission – Official Map: Josephine County Transit Bus Map, Oregon

February 19, 2013

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0 stars, bus, bus map, cartography, GIS, Grants Pass, hall of shame, Oregon, submission, USA

Submitted by Matthew Harris, who says: This is the official transit map for Grants Pass, Oregon (Josephine County) and it will supersede your German map (February 2013, 0 stars) as the worst transit map. Transit Maps says: I knew it!!! I knew as soon as I gave a score of zero, something else would appear that was even worse. A blurry, muddy, incomprehensible mess without any useful labeling at all. The inclusion of property boundaries on […]

Official Map: Miami-Dade Metrorail System, Florida, 2012

August 4, 2012

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1 star, cartography, Florida, GIS, heavy rail, Metrorail, Miami, Miami-Dade County, rail map, USA

Miami’s Metrorail just opened a new station at Miami International Airport, and decided to create an entirely new line (the Orange Line) to celebrate. Along with that, comes a new system map… which is, unfortunately, pretty terrible. Have we been there? No. What we like: The icon for overnight/long-term parking lots is actually pretty neat. What we don’t like: Poorly chosen background colours make the road grid hard to distinguish from the background. On that […]