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Subject:        Re: topological maps
Date:   Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:49:17 -0500
From:   Dennis McClendon <[log in to unmask]>
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> Does anybody know a good source (not digital) for examples of various
> U.S. TOPOLOGICAL maps.

I'm putting together a talk for this fall's NACIS conference on
highly stylized maps.  Examples that come to mind include various
transit maps such as Washington Metro and Chicago (which I designed),
or Vignelli's NYC subway map.  Richard Saul Wurman's work in _Man-
Made Philadelphia_ or his LA freeway diagram in _Access:LA_ come to
mind.  Airline route maps used to be examples, though lately they
often are dominated by relief presentation.  There are the new
typographical maps outlining various neighborhoods of severaal large
US cities from orkposters.com.  Last year a roadgeek did a very
diagrammatic map of the US Interstate System, and Nat Hedberg did an
improved version that he has on his blog.  I'm working on some maps
of US cities for toddler "board books" that are extremely simplified,
almost "mental maps" of landmarks in the various cities.  Chicago's,
for example, is organized around a stylized rapid transit network and
has very simplified expressways.

The Map Room and Strange Maps blogs are good places to poke around
for examples.  You may also want to inquire on cartotalk.com