July 13, 2007
DCist Maps Comes To Google
Some of you may remember our venerable DCist Maps project, which provided an overlay of the D.C. Metro system in the classic WMATA style, plus the ability to build your own customized maps. We were proud of the li'l guy, but he had clearly begun to show his age: designed in an era when 800x600 was still a common screen resolution, the map window was ridiculously small. And although we spent an awfully long time coding it, the map customization features clearly weren't as good as those offered elsewhere.
But we still think that the Metro overlay looks pretty sharp. And now, with Google's newly launched Mapplets feature, we can offer the overlay while taking advantage of Google Maps features like direction-finding, local searches and map customization. And of course you can use other folks' overlays in combination with ours, too — for instance, to find geotagged photos near a Metro station. Each Mapplet acts as a layer in the "My Maps" tab that can be toggled on or off.
Click here to add the DCist Metro Mapplet to your "My Maps" sidebar in Google Maps.
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Any chance you could add where the entrance and exit spots are for each station? The only place I've ever seen this done is on wmata's lame neighborhood street maps, so having it on Google would be super.
I may give it a shot, now that geocoding has matured a bit. But hand-coding the location of every Metro station was plenty tedious, so I can't make any promises.
It shows up as random lines in mine. Is it borked just for me?
It needs to redraw the lines whenever you change zoom levels. If something goes wrong with the Javascript in your browser, that process might be stopped. This could be a problem with my code, or with the code of any other overlays you may have enabled. What browser are you using?
And is anyone else having problems?
Guest 1's "dcrails.com" site tried to infect my IE with a couple of Trojan viruses. So I'd recommend nobody go there.
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