[HN Gopher] NYC Subway Station Layouts
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       NYC Subway Station Layouts
        
       Author : gregsadetsky
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2024-11-09 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.projectsubwaynyc.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.projectsubwaynyc.com)
        
       | afavour wrote:
       | Awesome. I wonder if there's a way to turn these into actual
       | geographic data. I'd love an app to that will navigate me between
       | platforms at the Fulton St megaplex.
        
         | lelandfe wrote:
         | I believe precise subterranean location like that is hard.
        
           | bobthepanda wrote:
           | I think there have been attempts to do this with physical
           | beacons that can orient phones nearby, but I would imagine it
           | can be hard to maintain in the harsh operating environment of
           | the subway.
        
         | usr1106 wrote:
         | > I'd love an app to that will navigate me between platforms
         | 
         | Why would that be needed? I visited NYC the first time as a
         | high school student with not so perfect English as a foreign
         | language skills in 1980 when the city was in a pretty rotten
         | state. The last time in 2009 when the subway was at least free
         | of graffiti and generally looked maintained better. In younger
         | years I found huge subway stations and their connecting
         | walkways fascinating so might have planned some trips with
         | extra complicated changes :) I never had the feeling of getting
         | lost although I definitely lost all sense of orientation. It
         | was easy enough to just "blindly" follow the signs. Not sure
         | why an app would be needed, I assume the signs have not
         | disappeared.
         | 
         | (In 1980 some connections were still sign-posted as "connection
         | to IMT", ... BRT, or ... IND lines although those had ceased to
         | exist 40 years earlier and where not marked on the official
         | subway map. But even that you could just guess from the
         | "breaks" in the line numbering.)
        
       | frankdenbow wrote:
       | There was an app called Exit Strategy that showed you where to
       | stand on the train to maximize your routes, depending on what
       | transfers you were taking.
        
         | popcalc wrote:
         | Equivalent for the Budapest metro: https://metro.skornel02.hu/
        
         | chgs wrote:
         | Geoff Marshall made "Station Master" for the London Underground
        
         | gnovel wrote:
         | The Citymapper transit app shows this information for most
         | cities it supports
        
         | Niksko wrote:
         | Google maps has this natively in Japan which was great for
         | travelling there
        
       | pimlottc wrote:
       | I would love to have diagrams like this for Chicago's CTA but I
       | haven't found any.
        
       | cryptozeus wrote:
       | Great but if owner is looking at this, please make the images
       | zoomable on mobile
        
       | usr1106 wrote:
       | Slightly (un)related: For detailed subway track maps e.g. in
       | Paris https://cartometro.com/en/ is a nice resource. The US is
       | not covered well, though.
        
         | bobthepanda wrote:
         | NYC subway, including provisions for extensions that never
         | happened:
         | https://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/docs/NYC_full_track...
         | 
         | My understanding was that there used to be more of these
         | publicly available but agencies get cagey about publishing
         | stuff like this for security reasons.
        
       | azaslavsky wrote:
       | For those interested in these for other subways around the world,
       | http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/ has done a lovely job
       | rendering them. It's impressive how many systems are covered.
        
       | mmooss wrote:
       | The photography is the best part (of a wonderful website). Kudos
       | to the creator.
        
       | alsetmusic wrote:
       | Why are the stations not labeled? I'm sure this is fine for
       | people who live there and use the subway on a regular basis, but
       | it would be of little help to someone visiting or who just
       | relocated. Even someone visiting a friend in an area they aren't
       | familiar with would be at a disadvantage figuring out which
       | layout to use.
       | 
       | Edit: that said, very cool.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | Can this be integrated into the various navigation apps?
        
       | neilv wrote:
       | In the renderings, why are most of the (what look like)
       | stairs/escalators so steep?
        
         | abstractbeliefs wrote:
         | I don't know about this instance in particular, but the
         | vertical scale in similar maps is often exaggerated to make it
         | easier to differentiate the different floors.
         | 
         | At the cost of distorting elements with a vertical dimension,
         | it means that all the wireframe layouts don't end up overlaying
         | each other.
        
       | throw7 wrote:
       | People should do/include Secaucus Junction.
        
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