The TRANSIT MAPS thread (hand-drawn or computer-generated, all are welcome)

[alps]

What can I say, not only do I not have a rail system to work with, we may never within my lifetime. It's hard to schematically organize the highways here, so I gave up trying, and I'm not sure how I like the result. The legend was fun to do. I might try a fantasy rail map again sometime.

[Trantor]

Originally Posted by vid

SThe city is based on the island city of Vitoria, Brazil.



This is a geographically accurate map of the city (made entirely by myself), the transit routes and stations are superimposed on a map of population density by land use zone. (I also made a map laying out land use zones.)

the map is geographically accurate, but the urban area map is invented right? Because in the real city, the most dense part is the east area, which on your map corresponds to the top of the image.

[vid]

The geography and road network and waterways (with the exception of the airport area, which is actually connected to the mainland but I severed; and the northwest part is actually a river, not an sea coast) are all accurate (I traced them), but as for what class some roads are and where the highest concentrations of people are, I have taken complete liberty. Vitoria (the island) only has about 350,000 people (iirc), my map has about 750,000. I liked the layout of Jardim de Penha so I chose that as the city centre. Vitoria proper (Centro) is a satellite downtown area, I think I imagined that as where the government was located while Jardim de Penha (which would have a built-form like central Paris) and Barro Vermelho (with a built form like downtown Vancouver) were business/residential mixed use area. I think I stuck a lot of institutional stuff in Bento Ferreira as well. The university for that city is in the same place as UFES but on my map it would be much more dense and built up.

I've got some other maps if you want to see them.

[Trantor]

if you take your map alone it makes sense to have the downtown in that area I guess... but in the real world you have Vila Velha, which is bigger than Vitoria, just across the bridge from somewhere near the end of your red line road (upper right of the picture), thats why downtown is there.



http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=388614


Vitória on foreground, Vila Velha on background


Vitória on background


Vila Velha on background


Vitória, near the connection with the bridge (this area corresponds to the top most right of your map)

(above pics found on this thread http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=907898)

Vila Velha left, Vitória right

[vid]

I was wondering what the giant building was. In my map, this place is many miles from the nearest other inhabited land.

Here is the Roads/water layer if you're interested.

[ajfroggie]

Updated my fantasy Twin Cities transit system, and also updated the PDF file in the process.

Here's a medium-resolution version:

[Cirrus]

Very nice.

[ajfroggie]

Based the format on your 2008 maps...

[cormiermax]

Transit map I made for my SC4 city.

[vid]

Very abstract!

[cormiermax]

Heres another one i did

[vid]

Great colour scheme huh? I think more systems should use the dark background maps like we have in Canada. They look very sleek.

To get the stops to appear better, try using a black stroke instead of a coloured circle on a black circle like it looks like you're doing. Some look a little misaligned.

[cormiermax]

Thanks for the tips