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LGD
Sep 25, 2004

CongoJack posted:

I think the idea behind the world transit map isn't to be an actual representation of what a worldwide rapid transit system would look like but a sort of cute little map made to look like a major city's public transit system. The idea being that if we worked together and had proper funding we could make travel around the world as easy and commonplace as travel through NY or whatever.

THOT PATROL posted:

having africa pretty much empty & labeling it “under construction” is... a choice, for sure

as the person who posted this earlier in the urbanism thread because it was extremely funny to take literally I should point out that the actual book in question is literally called "Transit Maps of the World" and covers transit maps in detail, with the "stops" being a cute way of indicating which urban train & metro systems are covered by the book, and Sub-Saharan Africa doesn't have as many systems to cover (and that's from an earlier mid-2000's edition)

in terms of absurdities:

MikeCrotch posted:

I'm the short hop from Salerno to Dubai across a sliver of water


LGD has issued a correction as of 00:02 on Jun 19, 2020

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LGD
Sep 25, 2004

also

https://twitter.com/wheatgarden/status/1270741123439493120?s=20

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