Eclectic Echoes

An excellent use of flash, this page showing a representaion of Beck’s original map from 1933, a 2003 version of the map and a geographically accurate version of the map, allowing the user to morph the lines between each version of the map to see the full relationship. Beck’s daring departure from standard cartographic methods in 1931 has remained to this day a major influence on design in general and maps in particular. New York, Tokyo, Washington DC and many other major cities around the world use maps with similar design (both informationally and stylistaclly) to represent their public transportation networks.