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2 total messages Started by Loren I. Petrich Tue, 03 May 1994 01:11

#3929

Author: Loren I. Petrich
Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 01:11

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	I posted two more BART maps in alt.binaries.pictures.misc; I
am willing to e-mail the files to anyone who does not get a.b.p.m.

	They are done in the abstract style of some BART publications,
since the stations differ widely in spacing.

	One of them ("BART System") depicts existing,
under-construction, and proposed BART lines. It may be a bit
optimistic, as in its showing of the construction between Colma and
SFO (SF's airport), and of mentioning plans to ring the Bay.

	I omitted the Muni Metro, CalTrain, and the proposed
commuter-rail lines because they would have produced too much clutter;
I indicate where one can transfer to them, though.

	The other of them ("BART Routes") depicts the logical routes
(as opposed to the physical routes, the tracks). These are lines with
colors associated with different start/end points. Where the lines are
next to each other, the logical routes fall on the same physical
routes; the trains to different destinations or from different origins
share tracks.

	I have also depicted the routes of the BART buses; showing any
other bus routes, except perhaps for some express ones, would have
produced _serious_ clutter.

	Hmmm... I'd like to invite other net.people to prepare
computer-graphic maps of their favorite rail-transit systems. Simple
scanning either requires _very_ high-resolution images to be readable,
and I've seen some posts of scanned maps that are simply not very
readable.
-- 
/Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
/lip@s1.gov
/		Happiness is a fast Macintosh
/			 And a fast train

Re: More BART Maps Posted

#3921

Author: Robert A. Klahn
Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 16:43

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I have obtained the maps from a.b.p.m and made them available via 
anonymous ftp at ftp.netcom.com:/pub/klahn/, for those of you with ftp 
access without access to a.b.p.m.

Unlike last time, this time I was unable to take the time and view them 
(For me, that involves uuto'ing them to another machine, something I 
could not take the time to do). So, if I have messed up obtaining them, 
will someone please let me know by E-mail.

Loren I. Petrich (lip@s1.gov) wrote:

: 	I posted two more BART maps in alt.binaries.pictures.misc; I
: am willing to e-mail the files to anyone who does not get a.b.p.m.

: 	They are done in the abstract style of some BART publications,
: since the stations differ widely in spacing.

: 	One of them ("BART System") depicts existing,
: under-construction, and proposed BART lines. It may be a bit
: optimistic, as in its showing of the construction between Colma and
: SFO (SF's airport), and of mentioning plans to ring the Bay.

: 	I omitted the Muni Metro, CalTrain, and the proposed
: commuter-rail lines because they would have produced too much clutter;
: I indicate where one can transfer to them, though.

: 	The other of them ("BART Routes") depicts the logical routes
: (as opposed to the physical routes, the tracks). These are lines with
: colors associated with different start/end points. Where the lines are
: next to each other, the logical routes fall on the same physical
: routes; the trains to different destinations or from different origins
: share tracks.

: 	I have also depicted the routes of the BART buses; showing any
: other bus routes, except perhaps for some express ones, would have
: produced _serious_ clutter.

: 	Hmmm... I'd like to invite other net.people to prepare
: computer-graphic maps of their favorite rail-transit systems. Simple
: scanning either requires _very_ high-resolution images to be readable,
: and I've seen some posts of scanned maps that are simply not very
: readable.
: -- 
: /Loren Petrich, the Master Blaster
: /lip@s1.gov
: /		Happiness is a fast Macintosh
: /			 And a fast train
-- 
Robert A. Klahn				klahn@netcom.com

Res Ipsa Loquitur: The thing speaks for itself.

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