subway maps (which are not particularly geographically accurate)
Subway maps and bus maps in cities are very typically not geographically accurate map projections .. the focus tends to be on a compact stylisation that represents connections for travel plans.
Historically Roman Road maps were on a scroll and very linear, today the UK underground tube maps are displayed in a manner that aids commuters in making connections.
I'm not all that familiar with NYC subway maps (only there for a short time in the 80s .. and who can recall their youth?) but I remember them being more "graphic" rather than "geographic".
I'm thinking more of a local land projection map that would have been used for local surveying in the days prior to global GPS .. but thanks for the thought all the same!
The NYC MTA map is pretty geographic by metro map standards. There are some obvious distortions, like Manhattan being wider than it actually is and it's not actually vertical as noted before. It also includes a lot of surface street and neighbourhood references. Most metro maps just focus on station names.
Compared with something like the London Tube map or Paris Metro map it's extremely geographic.
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Subway maps and bus maps in cities are very typically not geographically accurate map projections .. the focus tends to be on a compact stylisation that represents connections for travel plans.
Historically Roman Road maps were on a scroll and very linear, today the UK underground tube maps are displayed in a manner that aids commuters in making connections.
I'm not all that familiar with NYC subway maps (only there for a short time in the 80s .. and who can recall their youth?) but I remember them being more "graphic" rather than "geographic".
I'm thinking more of a local land projection map that would have been used for local surveying in the days prior to global GPS .. but thanks for the thought all the same!
The NYC MTA map is pretty geographic by metro map standards. There are some obvious distortions, like Manhattan being wider than it actually is and it's not actually vertical as noted before. It also includes a lot of surface street and neighbourhood references. Most metro maps just focus on station names.
Compared with something like the London Tube map or Paris Metro map it's extremely geographic.
https://new.mta.info/map/5256