November 03, 2003

511 maps

The new 511, the official transportation information website for the SF Bay area
combines
* terrible information arcitecture,
* a user-hostile interface, and
* gruesome cartography. (The Thomas Brothers' printed maps aren't half bad,
I don't know who is to blame for bungling the digital edition shown here.)

Example of the new 511: This blotchy map of SF MUNI bus route 48.
(Note the map itself has no route label)

Could you plan a trip with such a map ?

Muni (San Francisco Municipal Railway) Route: 48 - Quintara-24th Street - Ocean Beach to Potrero Hill.

RouteMap_WEB226442404157.jpg

And the helpful key distinguishes Ocean/Bay from mere water

RouteMap_WEB22644240425.jpg

See also a more vigorous critique.

Compare to

Overview:

48-0-0-0.gif

Detail:

48-1-1.5-1.gif

Posted by dc at November 3, 2003 02:56 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Yeah you really can't tell anything from that giant blob of a red line across the area. Pretty sad.

Posted by: cybrpunk on November 3, 2003 03:20 PM

Is that big red blob in the middle where the bus switches from being the 48 to the 94L?

It does avoid the one really terrible feature of Thomas Guides - all of San Francisco is on one map, instead of scattered across 16 pages or so.

Posted by: Anthony on November 12, 2003 09:12 PM

Wait, that makes absolutely no sense. How are you supposed to plan ANYTHING using that?

Then again, at least they're trying. It's better than many East Coast cities.

Posted by: amg on November 19, 2003 04:56 PM

Join the Linux community.

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