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New York City Parks Subway Map
Posted by daveklepper on Friday, December 28, 2018 2:33 AM
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Posted by Overmod on Tuesday, January 1, 2019 11:05 PM

Cute, but the actual thinking that went into the graphic design is on a par with the "Prints are available ... but not available at this time" level of competence displayed.

As with the DC-10 wiring, you have a squiggle of lines, all indistinguishably the same color, with no indication of what the actual routes or numbers involved might be, and no overlay of route or transfer content.  It would have been very simple to use the colored lines from an existing transit map, instead of a common parklike green, or apply the existing code system identifying trains, to make it possible to actually get to one of these parks after you find it on the map.  Which I thought was a primary purpose of a printed subway map...

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Posted by Miningman on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 1:01 AM

That was my first thought... why are the lines not colour coded. Tried to trace a couple and lose it at the splits or intersections. Suppose when they say green parks they mean green everything. Maybe residents know what's what.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 7:41 AM

Maybe we are all color blind ?  Pastel colors are the first to go !

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Posted by Miningman on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 10:46 AM
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Posted by Overmod on Wednesday, January 2, 2019 7:21 PM

Miningman
" the Parks Dept. employee who thought up the idea possibly got inspired by the Hashtag map"

Yeah, in the way the Windows 2.0 interface designer got inspired by the Mac interface.

#tagsandthecity MARKEDLY retains both the colored lines/letter route markers AND the adjacent station physical names. 

Meanwhile, unless I'm mistaken, the parks map reverts to the older style of NYC spaghetti map, where the lines are geometrically 'elegantized' at the expense of actual physical routing.

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Posted by Miningman on Thursday, January 3, 2019 1:35 AM

The last sentence is funny. To answer Overmod.

From Mike of course! 

 

 
...The Parks Department tried to identify a park for each subway stop rather than plot them according to exact geography, department spokeswoman Meghan Lalor said...
 
 But Lalor said the map is "more fun than function."
 
 
"If you're looking for directions, please use the subway map!" she said.

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