[新聞] 紐約地鐵地圖的創建者邁克爾·赫茲去世

[amethystboy (紫晶男)]

新聞來源:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51648746

Michael Hertz, the man who designed the map of the New York City subway
system, has died aged 87.

In the 1970s his firm, Michael Hertz Associates, was hired by city transport
officials to redesign the old map.

At the time, crime was on the rise and subway ridership was at its lowest
level since the late 1910s. Few tourists rode trains to see sights.

His team added streets, reshaped parks, distorted boroughs and re-formed and
gave curves to the snaking train lines.

A native of New York's Brooklyn borough, Mr Hertz previously helped create
transit maps for Houston and Washington DC before undertaking the New York
project for the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).



In an effort to remove some of the straight lines that were disliked by
riders, Mr Hertz hired a Japanese designer who rode every subway line with
his eyes closed so that he could better depict the curves in the railways.

The map that Mr Hertz produced in 1979 was tweaked by his firm several times,
but the basic design remains.

In 2004, he told the New York Times that he appreciated every time he saw
tourists using the map for the first time.

"I still get a pleasure in a subway station when I see somebody in lederhosen
looking at the map," he said.


赫茲先生在1979年製作的地圖經過其公司的幾次調整，但基本設計仍然保留。

2004年，他告訴《紐約時報》，每當他第一次看到遊客使用地圖時，他便表示感謝。

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推 Yenfu35: R.I.P.
→ omkizo: 紐約地鐵的圖普普
→ omkizo: 不過像地鐵那種拓撲圖還搞出不少有趣的東西
→ omkizo: 例如很多人都不知道桃園機場比松山機場還要北邊
推 Kazamatsuri: 現在的北捷路網圖誤打誤撞的把桃機畫的松機北邊啊 XD
→ Kazamatsuri:                                     ^比
→ Kazamatsuri: 「每當他看到遊客第一次使用地圖時」比較正確吧？ :p
→ whistlerhu: 紐約地圖不拓樸耶
→ omkizo: 我也覺得不夠拓撲 而且還很亂
推 aclahm: 很亂是有原因的 曾經要簡化 結果乘客不買單
→ whistlerhu: 因為很多路線走向、站點都差不多，而且轉乘環境很爛，
→ whistlerhu: 所以如果不顯示實際位置的話會難以選擇路線