OpenGeofiction
Offering to create hand-drawn transit maps for your rail/bus/whatever system
Posted by _zM on 12 January 2016 in English.I am currently a bit bored and had this idea for a while now and thought I could try this out with some of the systems on OGF.
## Specifications
* Hand-drawn maps using colored pencils (around 20 different colours)
* A4 sized maps
* Medium system size (big ones might not fit)
* Hexalinear maps; this means horizontal lines and 60-degree angled lines
## Examples
* Here is one for Darsons, north Commonia:
* And a real world example (different style):
I will accept requests for about an hour and a half, maybe longer.
Discussion
Comment from Yuanls on 12 January 2016 at 19:01
Wow! That’s really good, I like your style. It’s such a shame that I haven’t gotten to the extent where I’ve named all the stations and crafted the entire system. But I’ve got the town of Monksbury in North Commonia (south of Reagan, North of Katsnelson. It’s got a simple tram system and I wouldn’t mind having that mapped.
Comment from Yuanls on 12 January 2016 at 19:01
http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/26.8867/157.3385
Comment from _zM on 12 January 2016 at 19:03
Great, will do. Any preferred colors?
Comment from Thunderbird on 12 January 2016 at 19:11
Wow, that looks great!
None of my rail systems are fully finished but I would still love to see more of your work when you create a map for someone else.
Comment from Yuanls on 12 January 2016 at 19:15
Well, red and blue maybe? Red: Monksbury Village-Easton Grange-Vikersgate-Coopersfield line. Blue: Coopersfield-Fawkes Road-Monksbury Village line.
Thanks Yuanls
Comment from Luciano on 12 January 2016 at 19:22
If you want a major challenge, you might take on a transport network map of Villa Constitución’s rail/subway/tram networks. I myself have been afraid to take it on - my graphic arts skills are poor (especially compared to my mapping skills), so I have only created what you might call “data-driven” network maps (i.e. just extracting things from the OGF database and drawing “automatically”). You can study the network on the RUTA-VC map here:
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/RUTA-VC/Multimap
Note that the map is “zoomable” and “clickable” - meaning you can find out station names and line names/numbers but clicking them.
Comment from _zM on 12 January 2016 at 19:25
Yuanis, here it is:
Comment from _zM on 12 January 2016 at 19:30
Just realised I removed the station name for Hubert Shopping and never put it back. It is still there and (maybe) visible though.
Comment from _zM on 12 January 2016 at 19:44
I also just started the VC map, but it will likely only include the central area.
Comment from histor on 12 January 2016 at 20:07
If you take 30° and 60° elements, you have more freedom for the most crowded center of your net as at only with 45° elements. So seen this methode has its charme.
O.k. - hand drawn. This can only look good, if you make an exact lettering (may be only majuscles). For such “quick and dirty” maps I perefer to work with “Paintbrush” (parent of paint).
Comment from histor on 12 January 2016 at 20:10
Your real world example is Potsdam.
Comment from Yuanls on 12 January 2016 at 20:12
Just a question: How do you create maps that are geographically accurate on a computer? E.g. a map of major roads and railways. I think it has something to do with a JSOM plugin but I’m not sure.
Comment from Yuanls on 12 January 2016 at 20:13
Thanks JM, that’s really nice!
Comment from _zM on 12 January 2016 at 20:17
histor: Yes:)
Comment from _zM on 12 January 2016 at 20:22
Here is the part of the VC map I have already completed
Comment from Luciano on 12 January 2016 at 20:40
@zm - hey, cool.
I agree @histor that having a 30/60/90 grid is very appealing - the one time I attempted something like this, I used something like what @zm is using the one time I tried this, but gave it.
@yuanls - the best tool I have found for creating maps from .osm files (i.e. JOSM) is a stand alone app called Maperitive. It has a steep learning curve, and it’s not great, but it’s what I used to make my hydrographic map, for example. Anyway I like it better than the export plugins available inside JOSM.
Comment from _zM on 12 January 2016 at 20:52
Am going to return in about 20 hours
Comment from joschi81 on 13 January 2016 at 12:27
Haha, what I see now: after Luciano and I moved many parts of Commonia up north (away from equatorial climate) and rotated them, I didn’t find the time to adapt the names. Because of the rotation, Eastdale is in the north-west now, so it has to be renamed to Westdale (in relation to Darsons) and the names East XXth street… have also to be changed to West XXth street… and so on.
Wow, that’s a pretty huge light-rail network for such a small city… Originally it didn’ even have a light-rail (which I found a pity, but it was the “truth”), then it had one line, now it has a huge network. The only urban rail transport I added when I created the city was the Downtown Circular Streetcar.
Anyway: Nice maps. And: Was it you who continued the work for Darsons? Do you want to change the names (East to West, North to South… Lincoln to Darsons whereever the old name still appears)?
Best regards joschi81
Comment from Ernestpkirby on 13 January 2016 at 17:19
If only this map was simpler…
http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/images/d/d8/QUARTAmap.jpg
I’ve tried simplified maps of the system and found I was forced to stay geographically accurate due to the strange shape.
Comment from histor on 13 January 2016 at 19:19
Or as example 30° / 60° the first version of the metro.net of Saguset
[http://opengeofiction.net/wiki/index.php/File:Latmetsaguset.png]