um... mornington crescent?

[kip_w]

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Good old bOINGbOING has found me another cool thing. This is a [simplified] map of the US Interstate Highway System, represented as a subway map would be. Not geographically correct, but a graphic guide to connections. I looked at it and I reached, and I heard the voice of a Sensei calling me "Grasshopper."





Dig it! Map created by Chris Yates. Prints are available.
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Comments

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

That's cool, but I do wonder what happened to I94 east of Minneapolis and west of Chicago. It's not like that's a crowded area of the map!

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

At a guess, he didn't want a third road coming in to Chicago from the northeast, because it would screw up his nice angles; and there's no major city in that part of the country.

It's an interesting map, but I can't get over boggling at showing San Francisco as being closer to Minneapolis than to Los Angeles. (Not to mention making California 5 times as long as Oregon and Washington combined.)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

It's like the tube maps; not geographically correct, but useful in its way. I'm just impressed he thought of doing it. I keep wishing it had distances, but seeing the highway numbers laid out like that, the system almost seems logical!

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

Heh. Either way I am still living in a rectangle. A white, snowy one.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a rectangle...