A Matter of Maps

While I was in Seattle, I was at the mercy of their public transit system. Trying to find your way around a new city can be extra challenging when you're visiting a city that is on foothills that are just littered with water ways. The transit map designers had a problem of deciding whether to go with the more accurate terrain but messy-looking map, or go with a nice clean map that barely bore any resemblance to the actual city. It reminded me of Vignelli's map problem. So what did they do? Well, instead of possibly making the wrong choice, they just didn't. They used both. Actually they had three all together. I think it worked, I never really got lost. Although part of me hates when things don't match.