[ahane]

Really sad how almost all the comments in this thread are negative.

As somebody who has lived in Berlin since 11 years, whilst having studied the official transit map and the big BVG physical map of berlin for hours:

This is a really great improvement over the official one it gives me a relieved kind of pleasure to look at. I can really feel how all those expectations from the physical map finally find a home in the abstraction. Oddly satisfying!

[LeanderK]

I live in karlsruhe and the KVV there did a similiar change and after living with it for a few months I can say that it's a real improvement!

[gmueckl]

The KVV map did not change its layout very much. It was mostly a pretty tame transition from sharp angles and straight lines to curves. Most stations didn't change their relative position much. I don't know if the new one is better. I only remember having to unlearn the layout of the old one for a while. Also, this map change was after a time when the routes were changed around several times to accommodate the new tunnels then under construction. So the old maps also had a lot of churn.

[LeanderK]

that's true that the change is not as big as the one proposed here, but I still think that the new one is more intutive.