{"id":6029,"date":"2015-10-05T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/10\/new-edition-of-transit-maps-of-the-world\/"},"modified":"2017-11-18T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T16:00:44","slug":"new-edition-of-transit-maps-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/10\/new-edition-of-transit-maps-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"New Edition of Transit Maps of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a> A revised and expanded edition of Mark Ovenden<\/a>‘s Transit Maps of the World<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is coming out in early November, presumably because the transit systems, and the maps thereof, have also been revised and expanded since the first edition was published in 2007. (My review of the first edition is here<\/a>.) It’s being published by Penguin<\/a> in the U.S. and Particular Books<\/a> (a Penguin imprint) in the U.K. [Amazon<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A revised and expanded edition of Mark Ovenden‘s Transit Maps of the World is coming out in early November, presumably because the transit systems, and the maps thereof, have also been revised and expanded since… 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":[30],"class_list":["post-6029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-transit","tag-books","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791474,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/07\/google-maps-android-my-maps-discontinued-transit-crowdedness-feature-expanded\/","url_meta":{"origin":6029,"position":0},"title":"Google Maps: Android My Maps Discontinued, Transit Crowdedness Feature Expanded","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 July 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"The Google My Maps Android app is being closed down in October. 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