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Friday, March 24, 2006
Coolest Subway Map Ever
Every once in a while you come across something on the net that is exactly what you wish you could have done, if only you had the technological skills. I came across on NY Turf today (I know, I'm probably behind the curve on this, and now I recall that I checked this site out briefly after the Times mentioned it last October). I was over at OnNYTurf because I was fixated by that site's geographic explanation of the new Yankee Stadium plan. Well, that site's also got the greatest map of the New York City subway that I've ever seen (pictured above).
Most road maps that you can buy at the store or get at Google or Virtual Earth show streets in a way that are useful for motorists but useless for the millions of people who travel throughout the city by train. Highways are given huge prominence and streets are shown according to how much traffic they have. OnNYTurf fades the highways into the background by graying them out. In its place with top billing are the city's 23 subway lines, two shuttles and five PATH lines, places to scale atop the city's street grid. Unlike the official maps made by agencies that have an institutional pressure to include only their own routes, this map places PATH on equal footing with the MTA's subways. Also unlike these maps, it relates the stations to the streets around them, so with its search function you can see exactly where you are going above ground, determine the line and station that are closest, and then plot out a walking route to your destination. The icing on the cake is that it allows you to roll your mouse over particular stations to learn information about service at each station (as seen above), or you can click on a station for more details. Big-time kudos to Will, over at OnNYTurf for putting that together. There are other subway maps as well.
- The official map. You're familiar with it. It's not to scale, but at least it's more to scale than most official subway maps, like those of Washington and Boston. Designed to show the routes as simply as possible, this excludes everything above ground.
- Brail.org A Google mashup with a cool feature: You click on the map twice and it automatically calculates your best route based on the time of day you want to travel. It omits the traditional track lines, but does show all the intermediate stops you'll pass on your journey.
- NYCSubway.org's route map. This one is even less to scale than the official map, but does let you see the routes and transfer stations very clearly.
- NYCSubway.org's track maps. These show transit buffs like myself the individual tracks and switches between them. Remember when there was a shuttle train that went straight from the N and the R station at 57th and Seventh to what is now the F train station at 63rd and Lex? This one explains how normally unused tracks made that possible.
- Joseph Brennan's subway and rail map. The best thing about this map is that it shows all the connections between regional commuter rail and the subway. It also differentiates various lines by thickness according to how frequently they operate a particular service. Lines that don't run overnight or on the weekend are less prominent than those that do, for example.
- Joseph Brennan's scale rail map. This great one shows the subway, close-in commuter rail stations, PATH, NJ light rail and Staten Island Rapid Transit all together on the same map, and it's to scale!
- NYCSubway.org's historical maps Fun maps that trace the evolution of the subway. Why did they have to tear down the Bronx's Third Avenue elevated?
- Eyebeam Research A Google mashup like OnNYTurf's, but the streets are so prominent that they detract from the subway routes, the mouseover popup boxes aren't as good, and it doesn't include the PATH.
There used to be a collection of maps that showed subway service by time of day (so, for example, on the late-night map, the IRT line to East New York that is usually shown in red as the 3 line was green because the at that time of night, the 4 travels that line.) Does anybody know what happened to those?- Posted at 12:34 AM |
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