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The internets move fast. While Seth and I have been distracted, others have made progress mating MBTA data with Google maps.
After I posted on Seth’s blog that I was finding the Lat/Long of T stops by hand, Steve Pomeroy chimed in to let us know that this data was freely available on the Mass GIS website. He cleaned up and made it available here.
Craig Thrall (I think) has gone ahead and gotten all the T lines drawn with polylines. As Seth suspected, when the map has lots of points used to draw polylines, things get really slow. So our plan has been to use a combination of overlay images and points. To see an extreme example of this, the 400+ NYC subway stops have been plotted using points. Warning, the link made firefox chug away for long enough that I got bored and force quit.
Joe Huges has used the MBTA trip planner data with google maps.
Seth got mentioned in a piece in the Boston Globe: Thinking maps.
And a blog has popped up to keep track of Google Maps projects: Google Maps Mania
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