deform geographic map _ time -distance

Hello people.

I have a project of regional design and I would like to turn a geographic map to a time-distance map. I have some lines that are the train lines of the region and I would like them to be the attractors ( proximity) that will deform the map. I want to achieve what the attached pictures show (its the famous OMA map of Europe after the Euralille project)

Thanks for any contribution!

Dimitris

Attachments:

map of distances.jpg, 244 KB
Territory-transport-time-TGV-Lille.jpg, 1.3 MB

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 8, 2014 at 8:52am

Sorry, no help from me at this point, but I too am very interested to see if and how this can be solved.

Are the angles from point of origin kept intact in these mappings? I.e. if you represent the map as a polar coordinate system, do only the distances change?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by DIMITRIS VENIZELOS on March 8, 2014 at 9:58am

I think the OMA map is more an expressionist image, just to make a point. I dont think it is calculated as a map.

For my case I would prefer to keep the angles intact.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 8, 2014 at 11:58am

If the angles are kept intact, then how does one deal with the fact that sometimes a point further away is more easily reached than a point in the same direction but only halfway as far? This would involve the map to go back on itself no?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by DIMITRIS VENIZELOS on March 8, 2014 at 12:13pm

Yes. You are right. (I thought of that after I answered back to you).

I am thinking that since this is a space time-map, there must be some destination points (that will coincide with transportation knots) that must control the map's deformation. Perhaps the "folding" of the map is an actual fact that must be represented as such. perhaps the problem should be addressed as a 3-d deformation of surface.

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