crazed monkey » transitmap http://crazedmonkey.com/blog Ian Stevens' weblog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:37:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 … Read more]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/bad-transit-map-redirect.html 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 Read more]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/no-cease-and-desist-for-transit-map.html 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 … Read more]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/toronto-transit-map-in-print.html 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 Read more]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/more-love-for-the-toronto-transit-map.html 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 … Read more]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/welcome-torontoist-and-livejournal-toronto-visitors.html Toronto transit map now with linking I’ve updated the Toronto transit map to include support for linking. You can now link to addresses as well as link to stations. Just click the “Link to this page” link above the map.

]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/toronto-transit-map-now-with-linking.html Future Toronto Transit Map features Now that my Toronto transit map contains many of the features I envisioned when creating its predecessor, it’s time to think of new features I would like to add. What follows are whatever features I can think of. Most of these are pretty zany, involving tedious work, but who said a feature request list … Read more]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/future-toronto-transit-map-features.html New tiles for the transit map Based on a user comment on the new map, I have added another zoom level to the Toronto transit map. I didn’t do this before because Illustrator wouldn’t let … Read more]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/tile-updates.html Creating the Toronto Transit Map As with my old subway map, the most difficult parts of creating the new map didn’t involve any programming. The hardest and most time-consuming part by far was cleaning the TTC ride guide and projecting it onto … Read more]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/creating-the-toronto-transit-map.html TTC subway map upgraded to Toronto Transit Map About a year ago I played around with the Google Maps API and created a map containing the TTC subway system. It wasn’t intended to be all that useful as the TTC’s own map contains much more information. Still, that didn’t stop my map from … Read more]]> http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/toronto-transit-map.html