Comments on: More love for the Toronto transit map

By: Hani

Hani — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:59:29 +0000

Ian:

I agree with other users who say TTC should buy your site.

It is very useful. Whenever I have to go to an area in Toronto that I’m not familiar with I use your map. The TTC site is nowhere as helpful.

Thanks for the initiative and good work,

By: abu abdAllah

abu abdAllah — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:50:00 +0000

this is a great mash-up! i used your map to help me choose a hotel for an upcoming trip — i wanted something with easy access to the Yonge line, and did not care which station really. your site did the best job of helping me — though i did have searches running on various hotel sites on other windows.

maybe you could market your work to companies like hotels.com, etc., and use it to help public-transit-users-who-travel (PYUWT — sounds bad, i know, but it’s efficient) like me search for hotels, restaurants, whatever, while driving up public transport usage.

only thing i did not find that i would have loved to have — a mashup integration of expected travel times based on schedule-data. imagine, your map rocks over the TTC official stick-figure-detail map. but if i could click a start destination anywhere on the map, then the first public transport i would walk to (with an average walk speed estimated), the schedule could pop up an expected wait, then i click on connections… more estimates… build a trip on the fly — the same way that google’s regular map service permits adding destinations for driving directions, but here only to add walking and commuting information.

okay. now i am rambling. upshot: great site!

By: Corrie

Corrie — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:43:15 +0000

This site is so fantastic! Well done! THANKS SO MUCH!

By: Tom Leslie

Tom Leslie — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:25:05 +0000

Just found your wonderful map via a link on a friend’s blog. I worked briefly on a similar project trying to build a Google Earth overlay from the TTC Ride Guide, but my graphics software wasn’t up to the last of making a .png file with sufficient resolution to make it anywhere near as clear as your copy. Nice job!

By: Paul Dowman

Paul Dowman — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:27:54 +0000

Google TTC Map

Ian Stevens has created a really nice Google Maps-based TTC Map.

…

By: Toronto transit map in print - crazed monkey

Toronto transit map in print - crazed monkey — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:17:18 +0000

[...] Ian Stevens’ weblog « More love for the Toronto transit map [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:40:12 +0000

It’s been awesome to watch the map develop and has sparked much thought. If only the TTC would come to you now about this and buy it… :)

Good job, great job Ian! Plus the dang thing is USEFUL!

By: ecila

ecila — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:03:46 +0000

Ian, you’re my hero!

And congrats on all the great feedback on your project!
It’s all very well deserved!