Amtrak's "1MB" National Route Map PDF Is a 574MB File
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1/21/1970
13 hours ago
by tech234a
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13 hours ago
rossdavidh
It's somewhat akin to how documentation inside code is so often inaccurate; it may have been fine when it was written, but it doesn't get updated.
13 hours ago
dogman1050
No Amtrak in South Dakota.
11 hours ago
The previous version was named Amtrak-System-Map-020923.pdf and it's still available at https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p... and it really is about 1MB. Just zooming in, it seems to be a single lossy image.
The current one is called Amtrak-System-Map-081325.pdf and went live on the site sometime between August 19th and 20th (according to Wayback Machine snapshots). It looks like someone uploaded a working copy and forgot to export a nice small version.