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We want to be a community for sharing, discussing and improving transit diagrams, maps, animations, transit proposals, history and generally the visualisation of transportation systems. This subreddit is for your original content [OC] and original source transit visualisations. Show off your new maps, dive into historic transit systems and see what other redditors have been working on.

Rules:

Posting Rules:

1. Posts of diagrams and maps must have a descriptive title. Where? City, country, continent, imaginary, ect... When? Year, present, future, historic?

2. Please link directly to the original source. If it is work from another reddit user, please credit the user in a comment.

3. Sharing your own diagram? Great! Be sure to add [OC] in the title and a top level comment posts with tools used, idea and inspiration.

4. Please don't repost the same content more often than every 6 months.

5. Please set the flair to the appropriate category

Categories:

• Transit [flair:Diagram]: Clear and concise depiction of a transit system in Harry Beck's) style.

• Transit [flair:Map]: A geographic accurate or lightly distorted map.

• [flair:Track] Diagram: Diagrams that show the individual track lines, switches, maybe platforms an signalling, like this diagram.

• [flair:Station] Diagram, Maps & Views: Diagrams that show the layout of the station, stairs, escalators, platforms, rooms, similar to this view.

• Transit [flair:Game]: Board game or computer game about transit. e.g. Mini-Metro.

• Transit [flair:Visualisation]: Passenger flows, vehicles flows, travel times (isochrone maps), capacity or potential passengers.

• [flair:Other] diagrams: Diagrams in the style of transit diagrams, e.g. of bodies, highway, roads, stars, story lines, ect...

• [flair:Article]: Transit diagrams featured in an original blog, magazine article or video. Please verify if it is the original source and not just free booting.

• Text [flair:Discussion] Posts: For discussing a mapping method, which software to use, questions or polls about transit diagrams.

• Text [flair:Meta] Posts: If you want the sub to be changed, have improvement ideas, need to vent or sub related questions, start a Meta post.

• [flair:Animation]: Category for gifs, videos, interactive, of transit maps (e.g. morphing or year of completion or abandonment, growth).

• [flair:Redacted] Transit Diagram: Can you tell which transit system a diagram is without labels? Do, you need a hint? Similar to the redacted charts over at r/RedactedCharts, the sub welcomes redacted posts!

Commenting Rules:

6. Please be friendly. If you think a redditor-made map is of low quality, write a comment detailing how it could be done better, and don't just downvote.

7. By [Redacted], when commenting with an answer, hint or question, use the following formatting:

What you type:

>!Your answer goes here!<

The result:

Your answer goes here

8. New community projects are limited to "Tell-Me-Tuesday" and "Theoretical-Thursday". Posts asking for the names for a system, group ideas for where a service should run and similar posts are limited to Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Related

Discord

Transit and Transportation:

• r/Bus: A place for all things buses

• r/Trains: All stuff related to trains and railfanning!

• r/Trams: Interesting stuff about trams, or as Americans call it, streetcars

• r/Subways: A place dedicated to discussions and sharing pictures and videos of underground rapid transit systems.

• r/HighSpeedRail: A reddit to post your content regarding High Speed Rail

• r/Aviation: For enthusiasts fascinated with flight to post and discuss news, events, technology, specifications, pictures, history, and anything related to aviation.

• r/Transit: Transit systems and transportation over the world: including buses, trains, trams, streetcars, bicycles, etc.

• r/UrbanPlanning: The urban planning subreddit!

• r/Infrastructurist: The place for engaging and informative news concerning infrastructure issues and projects which move humans, goods, and energy around.

Diagrams and Maps:

• r/DataIsBeautiful: A place for visual representations of data: graphs, charts, maps, etc.

• r/Infographics: A place for infographics poster of information, data or knowledge.

• r/Map, r/Maps, r/MapPorn & r/Map_Porn: subreddits dedicated to sharing maps.

• r/OldMaps: for all the maps older than 1950, including some transit maps.

• r/papertowns: pictorial maps and cityscapes of town and cities, but usually without the transit drawn in.

• r/MapMaking: a community dedicated to making maps.

• r/ImaginaryMaps: a community dedicated to making and sharing imaginary maps, proposals, fictional realms, ect...