Reddit Reddit reviews Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth

We found 6 Reddit comments about Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.

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Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth
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6 Reddit comments about Transit Maps of the World: The World's First Collection of Every Urban Train Map on Earth:

u/General_Awesome · 2 pointsr/oldmaps

Hi, great that you're taking an interest to get him a book on cartography. I've recently began doing the same, and books are definitely superior over wikipedia etc.

  • 'Great Maps' by Jerry Brotton: Very accessible, kind of a coffee table book that you can look into when you have some minutes to spend.

  • 'A history of the world in 12 maps' by Jerry Brotton: Bought this one together with 'Great Maps'. Gives a more academic point of view on maps and on their origins/purposes. Haven't finished it yet though. Kind of unaccessible because there aren't really maps included (some maps, but pictures are way too small). Definitely recommend it, in combo with 'Great Maps'.

  • As /u/churizurd mentioned, Atlas of Remote Islands is pretty fun too. Pricing seems kind of strange on Amazon (1130$ for paperback lolwat)

  • Transit maps of the world is on my wishlist, looks cool
u/road_to_nowhere · 2 pointsr/washingtondc

Yeah, I've been trying to find one as well and the only thing I could find was a shitty t-shirt on the WMATA site in google's cache. Alternatively, this is kind of cool as a coffee table book. One of the additional images shows it has DC in it. I do quite a bit of international traveling so maybe it's just interesting to me but I thought it was a pretty cool idea for a book. I think I may get it pretty soon.

u/homeworld · 1 pointr/travel

Good idea. I wish I kept more of my transit passes. I'll have to dig up the ones I've saved. BTW, this is an interesting book to accompany your collection.

u/ConfitOfDuck · 1 pointr/Maps

That was a cool slideshow. Did anyone see the pictures of the Swedish subway system that were on Reddit a month or two ago? Also, has anyone else checked this book out? I snagged a cheap used copy. It definitely focuses on the design aspect of the map, rather than tons of info about the subway, but it'll make any transit geek happy.

u/mickcube · 1 pointr/transit

is this book common knowledge on r/transit? it's your tumblr in print form.

u/ennead · 0 pointsr/funny

If you like these, you should probably have a look at Transit Maps of the World which contains a wealth of information on how these maps were designed and evolved.