A. Reimer was holding up the HD-Banner at a recent Dagstuhl Seminar:
Not everyone was working on subway map automation, but most attendees had worked on graph or network simplification of one kind or the other.
The Seminar was very productive and we heeded Dagstuhl’s motto
The group I was part of made good inroads at modelling and operationalising measures for task-apropriateness of subway maps. Other groups worked on subjects such as curved map labelling, confluent graph drawings or the suprisingly popular circular embeddings.