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A truely amazing variety of rail maps in all sorts of shapes and sizes and for all purposes! Nice find, John. Suggest viewers start right at the beginning, here:
http://www.projectmapping.co.uk/

Good find.

There is a lot of interesting stuff as the site is primarily about the graphic design aspects (as per E Tufte's approaches etc), so as Steve says look around........

See here for example

http://www.projectmapping.co.uk/about_project.html

The maps are all overland, and the authors of the site are critical of Beck's appraoch - which is both uncalled for and also somewhat irrational. So are their arguements in relation to this. For example Becks mapping methodology is critcised since it did not tranlate well for the Paris Metro!!!!!!! What rubbish! If the map was faulty it was the way it was applied........

However all he maps shown are great and show a number of different approaches.

Only overland maps are shown though (something to do with Beck again maybe!!!).

If you like Tube Maps there is a cracker of a site here showning the different London maps over time....

http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/ ... =42&t=5376

There's an updated version of the original map here