If you've ever yearned to see what the public transportation maps of 214 different cities looked like all on one piece of paper, it's your lucky day. Collective ArtCodeData and non-profit Open Access pulled transit lines from some of the
If you've ever yearned to see what the public transportation maps of 214 different cities looked like all on one piece of paper, it's your lucky day. Collective ArtCodeData and non-profit Open Access pulled transit lines from some of the world's biggest cities and connected them on one world map. As you can imagine, the result is utterly overwhelming—much like encountering a public transportation system for the first time (multiplied by 214).
This is much more than a representation of the intricate lines that tie us all together across the world. The World Metro Map is inspired by a similar design that dates back to 1959. 'New Babylon' was a design thought up by architect Constant Nieuwenhuys and displayed a borderless system that spans the entire gl