{"id":360,"date":"2006-12-20T11:36:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/ttc\/more-love-for-the-toronto-transit-map.html"},"modified":"2006-12-22T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T04:48:07","slug":"more-love-for-the-toronto-transit-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/transitmap\/more-love-for-the-toronto-transit-map.html","title":{"rendered":"More love for the Toronto transit map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been overwhelmed with the positive feedback for <a href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/toronto-transit-map\/\" title=\"Toronto transit map - TTC, GO Transit, VIVA, etc. all on one Google map!\">my transit map<\/a>.  The news spread from the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/toronto\/\">Livejournal Toronto community<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontoist.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/the_best_map_ev.php\" title=\"The Best Map Ever in the History of Anything - Torontoist\">Torontoist<\/a>, then to <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/?p=1395\" title=\"New Fan-Produced Google TTC Map - Spacing Wire\">the Spacing wire<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/transit.toronto.on.ca\/archives\/weblog\/2006\/12\/16-oh_very_co.shtml\" title=\"Oh, Very Cool! - Transit Toronto\">Transit Toronto<\/a>.  From there it spread to a slew of other sites, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citynews.ca\/blogs\/6239.aspx\" title=\"The #1 Toronto Transit Map\/Google Mash-up Ever - CityNews\">the CityNews blog<\/a>.  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&#8217;ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, the interest is pretty overwhelming.  I&#8217;m particularly struck with the disappointment in the TTC for not coming up with something similar much sooner.  It&#8217;s sad that it took one guy working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/ttc\/pdf\/rideguide.pdf\" title=\"TTC Ride Guide\" type=\"application\/pdf\">a finished product<\/a> on his laptop to produce something of greater use than the TTC can currently provide with its reams of internal route data.  Sure, it&#8217;s a complicated system, with over 200 routes, and my map is far from perfect but <em>anything<\/em> would be better than the information the TTC currently offers.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates.  I&#8217;m currently working out a way to include user contributions to the map to greater increase its usefulness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been overwhelmed with the positive feedback for <a href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/toronto-transit-map\/\" title=\"Toronto transit map - TTC, GO Transit, VIVA, etc. all on one Google map!\">my transit map<\/a>. The news spread from the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/toronto\/\">Livejournal Toronto community<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontoist.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/the_best_map_ev.php\" title=\"The Best Map Ever in the History of Anything - Torontoist\">Torontoist<\/a>, then to <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/wire\/?p=1395\" title=\"New Fan-Produced&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/transitmap\/more-love-for-the-toronto-transit-map.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;More love for the Toronto transit map&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26,875],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}