Google Maps Gets Buildings and Subways

February 12, 2007 on 11:16 am | In Tech News by Josh Jones |

Buildings, Subways, Maps, Oh My!

Okay, this isn’t your typical DreamHost blog fodder, but it IS your typical typical blog fodder, so what the heck..

Did anybody notice that Google Maps now has little mini-buildings even on the map view (in some areas)?

And, more importantly, subway stops? I’ve been spending a fair amount of time in New York recently and Google Maps is close to useless there without Subway info!

Now it’s use-full!

(Ah, I guess they did this a few days ago.. well, just today they added more to Los Angeles, so I noticed!)

9 Comments

  1. 1

    Yip-eee.

    Comment by Ted — February 12, 2007 #

  2. 2

    Cool, but sadly nothing added in Vancouver as of yet >=(

    Comment by Andrew — February 12, 2007 #

  3. 3

    Edinburgh will be okay as there is no subway, tram or rapid transit system - in fact most of Scotland will be okay as its been over 100 years since an urban transit system was built. However maybe in ~5 years Edinburgh gets a tram. :-)

    Comment by Stuart Barlow — February 13, 2007 #

  4. 4

    FYI visiting new york:

    This guy has the best google subway map mashup. Zoom all the way in to see actual entrances.

    http://www.onnyturf.com/subway/

    Comment by nyc — February 13, 2007 #

  5. 5

    Parts of San Francisco have it as well. Cool! Thanks for the tip. Sure I would’ve noticed it eventually, but now I’ll be looking for it.

    I wonder how they’ll be able to keep up with developement. I already notice a couple buildings near my neighborhood in L.A. that are no longer there, but the google map still shows their outline.

    Comment by Lee-Roy — February 16, 2007 #

  6. 6

    the subway’s google map put in is not NYC subways just the path trains (trains to NJ)

    Comment by ben — February 19, 2007 #

  7. 7

    opps, wasn’t looking straight it’s missing buses

    Comment by ben — February 19, 2007 #

  8. 8

    Kinda cool but for NYC and some other cities there’s a much better site…

    http://www.hopstop.com

    this gives you directions using subways+buses!

    Comment by ray — February 22, 2007 #

  9. 9

    Hmm, I wonder if the building data is derived directly from the 3D city models that have been in Google Earth for quite a while now. If so, we probably won’t be seeing them in anything but the biggest cities for some time.

    Comment by Kirin — February 26, 2007 #

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