Mesmerizing GIFs Comparing Major Cities' Subway Maps With Their Actual Geography
The map mavens over on Reddit's Data Is Beautiful subreddit have been having a field day lately comparing cities' official subway maps with the actual geography they represent. Turns out most cities aren't as geometrically tidy as their transportation departments want you to think!
The trend of comparing metro maps to the geographic reality they represent got started with this GIF of Berlin.
Berlin
New York City
The New York map confirms what most New Yorkers already know: Manhattan is way overrated:
Barcelona
Shanghai
London, San Francisco, Washington DC, Atlanta and Moscow
Here's another take on Washington, DC.
And a more detailed version of Atlanta.
Antwerp
Vienna
Some of the maps are simple but still weirdly entrancing, like Vancouver and Montreal.
Vancouver
Montreal
And others, like Warsaw and Austin, demonstrate that some public transportation map designers aren't even trying to be accurate.
Warsaw
Austin
[Reddit]