v7.1
In case you missed my earlier post or the v7.1 announcement video (embedded below), version 7.1 will be released on Wednesday, January 15th at 10:00 am New York time. If you already knew that, have already read all the sneak preview posts, and already watched the video
Survey
So far, I've written lots of sneak previews of new features coming soon in Metro Map Maker version 7.1, shared some of my favorite maps, and even shared some fun artifacts from a visit to the Library of Congress where I went searching for a map from
Cutting Room Floor
(In case you missed it, version 7.1 is releasing on Wednesday, January 15th! Read about all the updates coming soon or watch the teaser video) Originally, I wanted Metro Map Maker version 7.1 to be very small – just a couple of new line styles. But as I was
v7.1
As soon as I finished work on version 7 (released in November), I got started on version 7.1, and I'm very excited to share this new update with you. Since the last release focused on adding line styles and letting you mix and match line widths and
I started 2024 with an intention to build lots of new features for Metro Map Maker, and I'm proud of all the hard work I put in. I'm especially proud of: * Adding new line and station styles so you can customize your maps. Washington DC'
v7.1
This will be the final sneak preview of version 7.1, and you might be able to guess from that I've got an announcement coming soon. Today's sneak preview is another new line style, this time a set of dotted squares. Like I mentioned in the
v7.1
Today's post is a sneak preview of another line style coming in version 7.1, this time inspired by the Paris Metro map. In an earlier version of the Paris Metro map I came across (seen above in the featured image for this post), the T1 line has
v7.1
Today's post is another new line style coming in version 7.1, a hollow line style similar to Hollow Open (London Overground) but instead of the lines being open, they're capped with a flat edge. Whenever I add a new line style, I typically test a
v7.1
Version 7.1 will have lots of new line styles, one new station style, and a handful of new features designed to make it so much quicker and easier to make maps with Metro Map Maker. Today's post is about a new line style I'm calling
v7.1
Version 6 and version 7 both took several months of hard work. Both versions involved some pretty major changes to how Metro Map Maker worked behind the scenes. For example, in order to make all maps browsable in version 6, I needed to create a system to turn map data
v7.1
Here's another sneak preview of what I've been working on for version 7.1 – another line style, this one inspired by an old map of Minsk I saw in Transit Maps of the World. Minsk's planned extensions have a solid line that are shown
v7.1
My plan for version 7.1 is primarily focused on adding new styles. Today's post is inspired by maps like Cologne. Some maps distinguish different modes of transit in their systems using different line styles; Cologne is a good example of this, where the S-Bahn and Regionalbahn use