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Title: subway maps
Post by: luisico on March 13, 2004, 10:01:42 am

Anyone interested in creating the NYC subway maps for the U-Bahn Navigator (see http://www.ubahnstation.net/projects/ubahnnav/ (http://www.ubahnstation.net/projects/ubahnnav/))?
I have already started, but as you can imagine is quite a work!
See you in the forums,
best,
luis

Title: subway maps
Post by: JP_Lewis on March 21, 2004, 09:30:28 am

luisico,

The Link is dead.

Title: subway maps
Post by: jdf on March 21, 2004, 09:50:53 am

Link works fine for me!

Title: subway maps
Post by: ashikase on March 21, 2004, 10:42:59 am

If anyone is really interested in this, has some free time, and is slightly crazy, they should try converting the data from the Palm OS program Metro: http://nanika.net/Metro/ (http://nanika.net/Metro/)

Metro has subway data for a _lot_ of cities.  It looks like each city is stored as a separate .pdb file.  Beyond that, I have no clue about the file format.

Any takers?  I\'m currently busy with my own Kanji project, or I would toy with it myself.

- ashikase
  anpachi, gifu, japan

Title: subway maps
Post by: luisico on March 21, 2004, 05:54:14 pm

Ashikase, I just took a look at Metro and it seems a great project, althought its data is protected in the license. The pdb files seem to be compressed or encrypted or just binary, but not straightforward and illegal to copy. I also tried their web interface and although I liked the idea itself, it returns you a path given the start and end points. I like better the graphical interface of the U-Bahn Navigator.

By the way, the link still works for me.

Best,

lusico

Title: subway maps
Post by: sylvius on July 29, 2004, 02:04:04 pm

Wow, that looks like a really nice package. I am going to start working on NYC in my not too copious spare time.

I used metro when I had a PPC and palm and it was pretty nice, but I never read the license. It's pretty disappointing that they won't work on a Z version nor will they facilitate anyone doing it.

At any rate, I doubt even NYC's huge subway network will take more than a few (8-10?) hours to input (unless I really misread the website about how to make new maps).