Interactive Subway Maps - an origin-centric approach
Jerome Cukier has put together a radically different take on the Paris Subway map , making it more origin-centric , and giving you a much better picture on how long the trip will take. The image above is your default Paris Subway Map, which - as always - gives you a surprisingly large amount of information. But, clicking on any given station reorients the entire map to center it on that station as follows e.g., clicking on Saint-Lazare makes it the center of the subway map - one presumes that you actually want to figure out how to get somewhere from Saint-Lazare :-) As a last step, hover on a given station (say Alésia ) and you see the route there from Saint-Lazare From Jerome's description So when a user selects a station, the rest of the network moves according to their (shortest path) distance to the selected station. So at the heart of the exercise there is a shortest path calculation from any station to any other. Including s...