{"id":1788262,"date":"2020-01-28T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788262"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:59:51","slug":"official-and-unofficial-german-rail-network-maps-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/01\/official-and-unofficial-german-rail-network-maps-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"Official and Unofficial German Rail Network Maps Compared"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the left, Deutsche Bahn\u2019s official network map of all Intercity and Intercity Express routes in Germany<\/a> (PDF). On the right, a much more ambitious map of said network<\/a> by Reddit user theflyingindonesian. Cameron Booth much prefers the unofficial map<\/a>: while the official map is \u201cincredibly average\u201d (a putdown I will have to make a point of remembering), the unofficial map is \u201ca major upgrade\u201d that is \u201cinfinitely superior\u201d to the official map. \u201cI particularly like the dead straight trajectory of the lines from Hamburg down to Fulda, and the clear treatment of the potentially difficult and convoluted Rhine-Ruhr area. I also like the way that the routes for trains that pass through major stations get a ghosted-back line to link the routes across the (sometimes very large) station rectangles.\u201d I know which one I\u2019d rather spend a long time staring at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the left, Deutsche Bahn\u2019s official network map of all Intercity and Intercity Express routes in Germany (PDF). On the right, a much more ambitious map of said network by Reddit user theflyingindonesian. Cameron Booth… 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":[1421,282,58,41],"class_list":["post-1788262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-transit","tag-db","tag-germany","tag-reddit","tag-trains","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5769,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/02\/us-intercity-bus-and-train-routes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788262,"position":0},"title":"A Map of U.S. Intercity Bus and Train Routes","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 February 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"This map from the American Intercity Bus Riders Association (PDF) attempts to map every intercity bus and train route in the United States\u2014i.e., everywhere you can go without a car. 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