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This map has rapidly become one of my most popular ones, so I thought I should do a write-up about it.  This tale begins with a risky decision to enter mortgagedom and buy an apartment within my current complex.  The former apartment which I was renting, was decorated in the style of a previous map series (PROJECT #130: SINGLE LINE TRAM MAPS) , and I wanted to switch things up.  I had previously started work on neighbourhood pub and bar maps (PROJECT #330: NEIGHBOURHOOD PUB & BAR MAPS), and the original idea was to simply expand in scale to cover...

As the previous blog post can attest, I have a keen appreciation for the beauty and variety of regional Victoria.  It probably comes as no surprise then, that I’ve always wanted to create a fantasy V/Line map - V/Line being the brand of Victoria’s regional rail network.  Afterall, why keep all the fantasy rail map magic to metropolitan Melbourne’s trains and trams?   Victoria is geographically small by Australian standards, but fairly large by global standards, being approximately the size of the United Kingdom, so where to start with my vision for a rail network that covers an area equal to...

After a couple of maps focussing on my visions for the rail and tram networks in Melbourne, I started thinking about the state of Victoria, and how regional centres are connected so well by the road network.  As much as my gunzel-ness leads me to a strong rail -bias, the road network in Victoria probably has the best connectivity in Australia, and I do love a good road trip.   Still in the mindframe of creating transit maps, I began to wonder how the highway network would look in the style of a transit map.  And one of the other aspects...