[ygra]

Some examples of automatic layout in this style:

- M. Nöllenburg: Automated Drawings of Metro Maps, 2005. We've used that a while ago to render a few pretty images with our graph visualization library, but runtime is prohibitive (along with the requirement of a fast ILP solver).

- LOOM: https://github.com/ad-freiburg/loom and https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global

[solardev]

Wow, cool. Thanks for sharing!

I hope someone builds a web version of Mini Metro with this on top of OSM.

[promiseofbeans]

Side note: Mini Metro is an incredible game, and the studio is still updating it with new content a decade after release! I highly recomend everyone here checking it out if they haven't already.

(Not affiliated, just a fan)

[lqet]

An example of Tokyo can be found here:

https://loom.cs.uni-freiburg.de/global#subway-lightrail/octi...

Schematization took around 2 minutes according to the statistics, it really doesn't look that bad.

[solardev]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. Mini Metro is a game that has the player connecting metro stations together by routing them however they see fit. It's a minimalist network/graph game that's both relaxing and challenging. It uses loose approximations/abstractions of real world cities.https://dinopoloclub.com/games/mini-metro/ (highly recommended!)

I'd love to see a web map version of it based on real geography.

[shiroiushi]

>We've used that a while ago to render a few pretty images with our graph visualization library, but runtime is prohibitive

I wonder if anyone's tried running it with the Tokyo transit system.

[ygra]

At least the subways seem not that bad:

https://www.yworks.com/assets/images/blog/tokyo.1e410d12c2.s...

There are more here in the article (clicking an image opens a slideshow): https://www.yworks.com/blog/automatic-metro-map-generation

[shiroiushi]

>At least the subways seem not that bad:

That's only a very small fraction of the transit system in the Tokyo metro area. There's over 800 stations, and over 100 train lines.