"Boltar" wrote in message
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Maps shouldn't be counter intuitive and have to get used to them.

Rubbish. All but the simplest maps have features which you have to get used
to. The A-Z uses a square for a fire station and a triangle for a police
station - what's intiuitive about that?

Anyone should be able to glance at them and read
them in seconds. Otherwise they're useless.

Useless to people with the attention span of a goldfish, but useful to
everyone else.

If you're in a car and using a map to find somewhere
do you orient your A-Z depending on what direction
you car is facing? No , of course not.

Some people do. Some people need to. Also, a road atlas was produced with
all of Britain the right way up in the first half, and all of Britain upside
down in the second half.

Do you think road junction signs should always have north at the top? Do you
think the signs where a road leaves a roundabout should all point left as
they do now, or should they point in a direction which denotes their
geographical direction?

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes