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A Technical Follow-Up: How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps – Transit

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When you think of Transit, you might think sleek, colourful interface. Below the surface, there’s a lot of "hard" technology quietly driving it. October 4, 2016 Six weeks ago, we launched Transit Maps, and wrote this blog post about why we took on the mammoth task of creating automatically-generated yet aesthetically-pleasing maps. We were blown away by the public reaction to our efforts, though not altogether surprised given the amount of time, thought and inspiration it took to create them. Today, we’re fulfilling our promise to publish a technical follow-up from Anton, our resident mapping wizard, who explains in much greater detail what went into building these maps. When you think of Transit, you might think sleek, colourful interface. Given that we’re extremely particular about making the app as beautiful and usable as possible, that’s no big surprise. But UI isn’t the only thing we’re about: our team extends well beyond expert designers, and our app is much more than just pretty

When you think of Transit, you might think sleek, colourful interface. Below the surface, there’s a lot of "hard" technology quietly driving it. October 4, 2016 Six weeks ago, we launched Transit Maps, and wrote this blog post about why we took on the mammoth task of creating automatically-generated yet aesthetically-pleasing maps. We were blown away by the public reaction to our efforts, though not altogether surprised given the amount of time, thought and inspiration it took to create them. Today, we’re fulfilling our promise to publish a technical follow-up from Anton, our resident mapping

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