On the Train Lines of our Minds
I once had a dream where I went from Hong Kong to Antarctica via the subway system. Antarctica wasn't that cold, but it did have a splendid shopping mall.

This map here reminds me of that dream. Antarctica doesn't appear on the map, but it's only a matter of time before they build an extension from Auckland (which coincidentally is already on the same line as Hong Kong.)

If you haven't clicked yet, the map is a map of the world in the style of the London Underground, where each station is a city in the world that either has or is planning an urban rail system (Ho Chi Minh City shows up, for example, alongside places that actually do have urban train lines.)

There are some strange connections. Having to go from Shenzhen to Guangzhou via Hangzhou seems a little excessive, and having to change at Buffalo to get from Seattle to Vancouver is even worse. But that's the way these things work in dreams sometimes, which is another reason the map appeals to me. (For example, although it didn't involve trains, one of my dream travels years ago involved going from Nepal to India via Thailand.) But that's just my personal take on it - it obviously wasn't the artist's intent.

The map itself is the opening page of a book about the graphic design of subway maps, and as such is something I must find, or have someone find for me.