Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Interactive Transit Maps


TransitMe uses the Google Maps API to render interactive maps of a position out of transit systems unopen to the world. Using TransitMe you lot tin instantly zoom inwards together with pan unopen to the transit maps for a position out of worldwide cities.

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


If you lot are wondering why TransitMe doesn't overlay these transit maps on altitude of the underlying Google Maps route map layer together with hence you lot should get got a await at the the Actual New York MTA. Ben Schmidt has taken the transit maps of New York, Boston together with Washington DC together with and hence stretched, squeezed together with rotated them hence that they jibe 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 get got to acknowledge that the map does lose some legibility when you lot squelch all that data onto a to a greater extent than geographically accurate map.

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