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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Exploration of how much geography is needed in metro maps

Exploration of how much geography is needed in metro maps

May 09, 2013 03:38 am

Removing geometry by Fathom

Terrence Fradet of Fathom Information Design ponders whether metro maps suffer or benefit by leaving out geography. Geographic accuracy is good, but sometimes it can confuse your audience.

Just how important is it that metro maps represent geography? This piece came from an interest in how metro maps over the past century have tiptoed between geographic and topological representations—topological meaning to forgo all spatial integrity and instead represent the connectivity of a specific environment.

Data Points: Visualization That Means Something is available now. Order your copy.

Putting today into perspective

May 09, 2013 03:36 am

Here is today

When you focus on all the small events and decisions that happen throughout a single day, those 24 hours can seem like an eternity. Graphic designer Luke Twyman turned that around in Here is Today. It's a straightforward interactive that places one day in the context of all days ever.

You start at today, and as you move forward, the days before this one appear, until today is reduced to a one-pixel sliver on the screen and doesn't seem like much at all.

Data Points: Visualization That Means Something is available now. Order your copy.

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