"Local rules" adapt maps to specific context

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Brainstorming about the concept of creating local rules that influence the way a given city's routes are represented. For example, general complexity and type of street grid could influence a diagrammatic grid on which route lines are drawn.

Potential local rules:

• stop / station hierarchy
• primary routes hierarchy, also typology of service
• urban density scaling... Grid adapts to more dense parts of the city
• key service directions (ie in and out of urban core, circulating city...)

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Route types have a visual hierarchy

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When routes can be combined / primary thoroughfares
This one is interesting because a sort of "dashed line" combines all the colors of the coincident routes.

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Methods of offsetting

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More route type hierarchy: