Digital ad screens in NYC Subway stations display weekend service closure maps

Reddit photo from r/nycrail.

In 2018, I had a meeting and walking tour of part of London with Ivan Bennett, who had been product design manager for the London bus system--it was a fabulous experience, about 6 hours.  

-- "Thinking systematically about bus transit service improvements: spurred by Columbia SC, Edmonton AB, and Baltimore," 2017
-- "Branding's (NOT) All You Need for Transit," 2018

One of the points he made along the way was about digital screens being able to display different kinds of maps much more easily.  

For example, at night, the display of a digital bus system map could be limited to the night time bus route network.  

This is another example of the positive opportunities offered by digital display screens for transit system maps.  

Previously, NYC Subway used posters to present this information, which had to be printed and put up.

National Geographic Geostories Platform and explaining zoning

One of the presentations at the National Bike Summit put on by the League of American Bicyclists was on a mapping initiative for trails involving both Rails to Trails Conservancy and their TrailLink project, and the International Mountain Biking Association, and a project they did in a National Forest in Southern California.

A presenter from the National Geographic Maps Division discussed their new Geostories method, which integrates video, images, sound, and other information in a multimedia-digital presentation format by embedding on maps what they call storypoints.

One of the projects they showed is the Envision the James River planning project in Greater Richmond. Other examples are available on this webpage.

I thought it would be interesting to apply the Geostory method to traditional zoning maps in a city, to explain the different zoning categories (residential, commercial, industrial, parkland, etc.), and neighborhood character areas.

(You could even present "pro" and "con" positions.)

Left: zoning map for Lititz Borough, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.