Ayelt van Veen / Unsplash. Sure, it’s got all the subway lines and station names on it, but geographically, it’s flat out wrong.
The subway map is like this for a very good reason: a geographically accurate map would be a nightmare to read. By making Manhattan larger the map can clearly show the important relationships between the subway lines—but not true distance or how long connections will take.London’s, Paris’s, and Boston’s maps are all lies too
And that’s at the small scale. It’s just as hard, if not harder, to work out the best route between far-flung destinations, like, say, Asunción, Paraguay, and Lombok, Indonesia. There’s no direct route, so how do you know which airline will make the trip? Or how about Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Bamako, Mali? The answer is out there.Short journeys are by far the hardest to optimize.
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