Transit Maps: locality map

Subway Maps in Mario Kart 8 “Super Bell Subway” Course

April 28, 2015

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gaming, locality map, Mario Kart, Nintendo, strip map, subway map, Super Bell Subway, Toad Harbor, wayfinding

Sent my way by quite a few people now! Taken from a new DLC map set inside a subway station and the surrounding tracks, we have quite the array of maps! Here we have a map for the whole system, a strip map for the Orange Line, and even a locality map! The main subway map itself is pretty non-descript and generic – not a lot to say about this. The strip map, however, is […]

System Maps, Mt. Washington Station, Baltimore Light Rail

February 19, 2015

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Historical Maps

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Baltimore, light rail, locality map, Maryland, Mount Washington, photo, USA, wayfinding

An (original 1992?) outdoor signage/map/wayfinding array at Baltimore’s Mt. Washington light rail station. While the main map on the central panel shows all the current stations and branches (dating it to after 1998), it looks as though there could be some patches or stickers on top of an older map to achieve this. To be honest, I don’t know why this map has to have any curves in its route line at all: I feel […]