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Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas
http://www.mapasycapas.com/lo-que-intentamos-es-organizar-la-informacion-del-mundo-en-un-contexto-geografico/
the UK has 99% coverage on all networks.
The map's display of the transit network should reflect how people get around, and most people do not drive in Tokyo, they take the train.
[Even turning on the "show transit" option does not do a particularly good job of it: the overemphasis of highways is removed, and the subways indicated, but much of the rail network is still almost invisible.]
What they've done is make unimportant details paler to bring out the important ones. As a result the maps are much clearer because unimportant, irrelevant details don't compete with what the user is looking for.
Which is great. And it's a lovely product. But in the UK at least unless you include Ordnance Survey mapping as a layer then you will always only be about finding the way around the 'built' world. No footpaths. No bridleways. No contour lines. You have a great product. But it is still vastly vastly inferior to OS mapping.