Bad transit map redirect due to hosting upgrade
On Monday my hosting service moved their servers. Ever since then requests on my site for URLs not ending in a backslash forward to crazedmonkey.nfshost.com. This means that if you access my transit map without including the backslash, the map will refuse to load because of inconsistencies with the Google Maps API key. I’ve opened a related ticket with my hosting service and hopefully they’ll fix the issue. In the meantime, please use the URL which works.
Posted on September 13th, 2007 in transitmap - 7 Comments »
Cease-and-desist letter unlikely for transit map
I was mentioned again in the Toronto section of yesterday’s Globe And Mail, this time in an article on the TTC website redesign. I can’t find the link online, but here’s the paragraph:
During the past year, the TTC went from sending a cease-and-desist letter to blogger John Martz for publishing a satirical subway map — renaming stations with irreverent anagrams — to the new commissioner praising the efforts of Web developer Ian Stevens, who used free Google tools to create a GTA-wide map.
It’s great to see such a change at the TTC with only a change in commissioner. I’m hoping that it won’t stop with the website, but will spread to all aspects of the TTC from scheduling to swag.
Posted on January 9th, 2007 in transitmap, ttc - 2 Comments »
Toronto transit map in print
As I mentioned the other day, the National Post interviewed me on my transit map. If all goes according to plan, the story should be in the Toronto Weekend section of Saturday’s paper, probably page 7.
Not to be outdone, I just got off the phone with the Globe And Mail, and they’re writing an article on the map as well. I’m not sure when it will be in the paper, but it will probably be in the weekend edition given that the writer I spoke to said she was working on a tight deadline. I’ll post more information as I find it.
Update: Thanks to Rob for pointing out the location of the article in the Globe and Mail, which is on page M5. The National Post story is online as well.
Posted on December 22nd, 2006 in transitmap - 6 Comments »
More love for the Toronto transit map
I’ve been overwhelmed with the positive feedback for my transit map. The news spread from the Livejournal Toronto community to Torontoist, then to the Spacing wire and Transit Toronto. From there it spread to a slew of other sites, including the CityNews blog. I also just came out of an interview with the National Post, so you can perhaps expect to see a mention in there this weekend. I’ll keep you posted.
As I said, the interest is pretty overwhelming. I’m particularly struck with the disappointment in the TTC for not coming up with something similar much sooner. It’s sad that it took one guy working with a finished product on his laptop to produce something of greater use than the TTC can currently provide with its reams of internal route data. Sure, it’s a complicated system, with over 200 routes, and my map is far from perfect but anything would be better than the information the TTC currently offers.
Stay tuned for more updates. I’m currently working out a way to include user contributions to the map to greater increase its usefulness.
Posted on December 20th, 2006 in transitmap, ttc - 8 Comments »
Welcome Torontoist and Livejournal Toronto visitors!
Greetings to those visiting my transit map from the Livejournal Toronto community and Torontoist, who describe the map as “the best map ever in the history of anything.” Thanks for the love, guys! You’ve got me all verklempt.
Posted on December 15th, 2006 in transitmap - 12 Comments »