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Friday, October 8, 2021

Interactive Transit Maps


TransitMe uses the Google Maps API to render interactive maps of a publish of transit systems to a greater extent than or less the world. Using TransitMe y'all tin directly zoom inwards together with pan to a greater extent than or less the transit maps for a publish of worldwide cities.

Currently the transit maps of New York, London, Paris, Madrid, Seoul together with Shanghai are available on TransitMe.


If y'all are wondering why TransitMe doesn't overlay these transit maps on tiptop of the underlying Google Maps route map layer thus y'all should direct maintain a expect at the the Actual New York MTA. Ben Schmidt has taken the transit maps of New York, Boston together with Washington DC together with thus stretched, squeezed together with rotated them thus that they gibe onto a Web Mercator map of New York.

The MTA Map of Actual New York helps to highlight the geographical inaccuracies mutual to transit maps. For illustration inwards New York the MTA map expands Manhattan, due to the higher proportion of lines together with stations situated there. You direct maintain to acknowledge that the map does lose some legibility when y'all squelch all that data onto a to a greater extent than geographically accurate map.