A new wrinkle on "map graphics"?

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From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:55:10 +0100 (BST)

David Dunham:
> Hmm, a comment I had on a draft of the Sartar book was to get rid of the
> building-by-building description of Boldhome. Of course, I thought the
> article on abstracting cities (essentially turning them into directed
> graphs, with lines between locations labelled in travel time) in a long-ago
> Different Worlds was absolute brilliance.

Well, I suppose it has to be a _digraph_ in case of one-way streets, no-exit signs, and steep hills. ;-)

I'm not sure how gripped I am by this idea -- it sounds a little like all the complexity of a map, and none of the flavour. And you still need the building descriptions, surely? But I'm intruiged, nevertheless, as it may well be that this is a lot easier to _produce_ than an actual map.

David, can you give a more precise reference, or better yet, given the availability of way-back-when DWs, a longer precis of the idea?

Slainte,
Alex.