När jag flyttade till Huddinge tänkte jag aldrig på hur långt avståndet var in till centrala Stockholm. För mig var det viktiga hur lång tid det tog att åka kommunalt. Just tiden är något Oskar Karlin har fokuserat på när han ritade en ny karta som även visar restid för Londons tunnelbanenät.

Karlin beskriver själv sitt projekt så här:

I started thinking what’s different in the world now from when the map was designed and one thing that are different today is time. No one has any time left any more. Time is money. Time is everything and so on. Today you never tell anyone how far away in miles you live, but in minutes or perhaps hours if you’re unlucky.

So I decided to create a re-design based on time instead of distance (normal maps) or simplicity (tube maps). By combining geographically accuracy with simplicity and time I started out with measuring the time it takes to travel between each station in the whole system.