Montreal Re-Mapping
Informing Design has been tasked by the Association du camionnage du Quebec (Quebec Trucking Association) to complete a re-mapping of Greater Montreal from the U.S. border to Mt. Tremblant. Based on the firm’s proprietary Haptics Mapping technology, all complex interchanges will be rendered as immediately perceptible flow patterns. These patterns also serve as a connectivity-data correcting mechanism – most of the major interchanges of Montreal (and most major cities) have been incorrectly mapped. In the example at right, the City of Motreal’s own extensive web-based GIS system linked to detailed aerial photography gets a one-way pattern wrong, even when the aerial photo shows huge arrows painted in the pavement aiming in the opposite direction.
Informing Design’s flow-patern technology will also enable all no-left-turn and truck route restriction data to be incorporated on the new street maps in a way that will make them immediately perceptible to truck drivers.
Clip from Informing Design’s 2005 mapping of Central Montreal. Dashed lines indicate underground section of highway.
Same view from the City of Montreal’s web-based GIS system “Navigateur Urbain”:
Aerial photo of ramps showing giant pavement marking arrows contradicting GIS system map:
