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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
On one level the map is fair representation, stick your head over the wall at Seapoint at Howth is directly across, it does allow for a more detailed map since it gives a lot more room to work with
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Who cares where places are? We're not walking or driving ourselves there. Irish Rail must be the only operator I know that uses geographically correct maps. There's just no point to them. All they need is one straight line showing all the stops on the route. Text should be sideways (not diagonal) and large enough to read without having to stand directly in front of the map. Why can everyone else do this except IR?
The only reason I can see, apart from someone being needlessly artistic, is because advertising space comes before passenger information.
Also there's a difference between route maps and system maps but IR don't seem to realise that either. Even system maps don't need to be geographically correct either, they just need to show passengers where to make connections.
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Route map (bottom)
http://www.transitlink.com.sg/images...rain_route.jpg
System map
http://www.trainweb.org/railworld/NDLS/images/Map.jpg