Google Maps Gets Buildings and Subways

February 12, 2007 on 11:16 am | In Tech News by Josh Jones | 9 Comments

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 Responses to “Google Maps Gets Buildings and Subways”

  1. Ted Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 11:50 am

    Yip-eee.

  2. Andrew Says:
    February 12th, 2007 at 12:30 pm

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

  3. Stuart Barlow Says:
    February 13th, 2007 at 3:32 am

    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. :-)

  4. nyc Says:
    February 13th, 2007 at 8:29 am

    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/

  5. Lee-Roy Says:
    February 16th, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    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.

  6. ben Says:
    February 19th, 2007 at 11:45 am

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

  7. ben Says:
    February 19th, 2007 at 5:27 pm

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

  8. ray Says:
    February 22nd, 2007 at 11:16 am

    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!

  9. Kirin Says:
    February 26th, 2007 at 7:18 am

    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.

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