http://crazedmonkey.com/blog Ian Stevens' weblog Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:33:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/bad-transit-map-redirect.html 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 ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/no-cease-and-desist-for-transit-map.html 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 ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/toronto-transit-map-in-print.html 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 ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/more-love-for-the-toronto-transit-map.html 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. http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/welcome-torontoist-and-livejournal-toronto-visitors.html 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 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 ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/future-toronto-transit-map-features.html 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 me export a large enough image to PNG, in this case 13794 by 8192. Instead I exported the image ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/transitmap/tile-updates.html 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 Google's tiles. I made heavy use of Adobe Illustrator for this ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/creating-the-toronto-transit-map.html 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 rising to the ... http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/ttc/toronto-transit-map.html