{"id":1786195,"date":"2018-08-30T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T18:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786195"},"modified":"2018-08-30T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T18:27:18","slug":"new-ottawa-transit-map-goes-diagrammatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/new-ottawa-transit-map-goes-diagrammatic\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ottawa Transit Map Goes Diagrammatic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OC Transpo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week<\/a> OC Transpo, the City of Ottawa’s transit service, unveiled a new network map<\/a> (PDF<\/a>) that shows the transit routes that will be in effect after the new LRT<\/a> opens, which is (at the moment) scheduled to take place in November. From a cartographic perspective, what’s interesting is that OC Transpo’s new map adopts a diagrammatic, non-geographical design after years of their maps simply overlaying transit lines over a city map (see, for example, the latest, pre-LRT transit map<\/a>, PDF). The approach allows the map to enlarge the more densely served core and inner suburbs and shrink the larger, but less service-dense outer suburbs\u2014which is exactly what diagrammatic transit maps of sprawling cities are good for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week OC Transpo, the City of Ottawa’s transit service, unveiled a new network map (PDF) that shows the transit routes that will be in effect after the new LRT opens, which is (at the… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[54,95,1265,357],"class_list":["post-1786195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-transit","tag-cities","tag-map-design","tag-oc-transpo","tag-ottawa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787896,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/mapping-ottawas-lrt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786195,"position":0},"title":"Mapping Ottawa’s LRT","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 October 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Ottawa\u2019s new light rail line opened to the public last month, more than a year overdue, and this week the bus routes change to account for that fact. 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