Subway Navigator

November 16, 2001 7:52 AM

Subway Navigator lets you plan your route all over the world.
posted by mmm (12 comments total)

That is soooooo cool. God, that makes me miss London (even though I hate the tube at rush hour). Mind the gap!
posted by starvingartist at 7:58 AM on November 16, 2001

> Subway Navigator lets you plan your route all over the world.

Via subway? That would be cool.

Q: Where did you go?
A: All over the world.
Q: What did you see?
A: Oh, nothing really. And the Paris station is a long way from New York, so you have to make sure you get a seat.
posted by pracowity at 8:02 AM on November 16, 2001

Ever since the time I successfully breached the CIA HQ restricted area by a few hundred feet and was given a complimentary background check/semi-interrigation by two paramilitary dudes with shotguns longer than my leg--all because of messed up Washington, DC Metro internet directions--I try to miminize my blind reliance on some programer's "best way to get there" directions.

I *wish* I was kidding :)
posted by Witold at 8:28 AM on November 16, 2001

that nyc subway map is old and incorrect.
posted by aLienated at 9:10 AM on November 16, 2001

Kind of a cool link, until I plugged in my morning commute, just to see how accurate it is.

My 30 minute commute is shown as being 60 minutes.

Maybe they're factoring in breakdowns on the system? Or getting off a few stops early and having a healthy walk?
posted by spnx at 10:06 AM on November 16, 2001

There's a PalmOS program that does this called Metro. The basic program is fairly small, and you can just download to your device the plug-ins for whichever cities' metro systems you are interested in.
posted by Rebis at 11:18 AM on November 16, 2001

I suspect that this site uses the MétrO codebase: certainly, it covers the same stations (and has the same unintuitive cross-street station navigation for the NYC Subway, the one map that needs a severe reworking by volunteer New Yorkers).
posted by holgate at 12:18 PM on November 16, 2001

Scroll down to the earth's mantle? From the Moscow Metro site - I don't know what it means but it's ..... deep. Thanks for the link, when I was a bored in class I used to draw metro maps for imaginary cities, this takes me back.
posted by grahamwell at 12:28 PM on November 16, 2001

Let me add kudos for Metro. I used it extensively in Brussels, Paris and London and it never let me down. In fact I was using it to give directions to others and I hadn't ever been in those cities.
posted by mmascolino at 12:58 PM on November 16, 2001

Oh, nothing really. And the Paris station is a long way from New York, so you have to make sure you get a seat.

That's what I always said in Paris: the metro was like the subway in a part of Queens that I never visited. Kind of just plugged it right into my mental map of the NYC subway.
posted by Mo Nickels at 1:48 PM on November 16, 2001

Well, to get to Paris you'd take the A train to JFK and then take the 'air subway' to Paris.. easy.. I'd just take a cab to JFK tho, much quicker.
posted by QrysDonnell at 11:17 PM on November 16, 2001

Is there a version of Metro (or anything similar) for EPOC?
posted by jedro at 8:57 AM on November 17, 2001