e-maps
I was excited to see Saathi (a publication by Indian railways from Mumbai) giving a lot of details about the suburban commuting by the trains in the great city of Mumbai. That must have been some five years ago. There is something unique about the metro maps. A typical metro map proposed for the city of Mumbai didnt elicit any response from the General Managers
Paris Metros have illuminated maps. Pushing a button against your destination lights the appropriate routes to take and points of correspondence, if any, on the way [Correspondence is like arriving at a junction]. Metro maps are the most interesting, if you ask me. Drawn in straight lines parallel to the edges of the paper, the London Metro, shows the charge zones as concentric circles. One wonders how could they manage to build the city in such an exacting order!
Then somebody referred a link to
www.samit.org for the electronic maps for the Indian Railways. It is a good show. I wondered how would it look if I shrink the north Bangalore while expanding the downtown for a metro map. These violations are like poetic licenses. They are permissive exaggerations!
Like ice-creams Maps have more flavours now. Paris has a map only to depict the one-way streets. There is a map displaying the noise pollution levels around the JF Kennedy Airport!
One may then wish to see the map of the S Railway in a similar vein
What are the applications of these models? Nothing until certain other conditions occur. What are they? Wait till the next dispatch