>>1411033BS routemaps are the spawn of satan. You couldn't come up with a harder way to make people draw rail diagrams than by making them memorise ridiculous un-intuitive names that are mostly in german and lack self-consistency. Large numbers of icons are missing from the set and it relies on people to write scripts to generate the missing ones if someone ever actually wanted to use one of the more obscure icons.
The fact that you have to learn how to perform alignment shifts from odd numbers of parallel tracks to even numbers of tracks speaks volumes about how awful the system is to use.
You could literally draw track templates in any decent software 1000x faster than you could learn how to use BSIcons. You could even do it faster in a general purpose vector editor like INKSCAPE. And then you'd only have to learn how to draw parallel lines with bezier curves, instead of spending hours of your life browsing the BSIcon catalog for the next piece you think you want.
Even worse, on the wiki I edit (not wikipedia), I think we use instant commons or something. Anyway it takes 10-20 seconds to render some of the routemaps. Repeat this over 10x because you will definitely get something wrong in the routemap several times including mis-typing icon names and alignment issues.
Alignment issues are so bad you basically may as well pad everything with blanks to form a big rectangle around your whole route map, making it take even longer to render.
I don't want to give anyone praise for creating rail diagrams with these BullShitIcons because that would be praising an ill-conceived unintuitive piece of software and the fools who use it. I might as well praise an artist for painting with his feet controlling the mouse in MS paint to produce fine art: sure, I appreciate he took ages to complete his work, but that's because he used a retarded approach.
No diagrams are my favourite and you all should be ashamed of yourselves for wasting your lives on these things.
