{"id":4190,"date":"2009-11-18T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4190"},"modified":"2009-11-18T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T08:00:46","slug":"maps-not-to-be-taken-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4190","title":{"rendered":"Maps not to be Taken Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/senexprime\/4055072020\/\">Flickr:  Eisenhower Interstate System in the style of H.C. Beck&#8217;s London Underground Diagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least this map isn&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> as distorted as the <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9c\/Wash-dc-metro-map.png\">DC metro map<\/a>, but I see e.g. it has Schenectady closer to Syracuse than Albany, and the route from Albany to Boston as a straight line, as one should expect of a schematic map, where your lines are limited to the eight choices at 45\u00ba<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long despised the DC Metro map, because it was useless to me the first time I needed to get around while visiting; the cabbies were on strike, and I was forced to use plan B, except I had no plan B at the time.  The schematic layout made little sense to me as I wasn&#8217;t familiar with the geographical layout of the city.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/diagrams.org\/fig-pages\/f00022.html\">Beck&#8217;s Tube Maps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr: Eisenhower Interstate System in the style of H.C. Beck&#8217;s London Underground Diagram At least this map isn&#8217;t quite as distorted as the DC metro map, but I see e.g. it has Schenectady closer to Syracuse than Albany, and the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4190\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}