Google Maps adds subway stops, building outlines to cities
Google Maps has made things a little spicier for users who are looking up information on cities like New York, London, and San Francisco: outlines to show the footprints of buildings, and subway stops. Public transportation map mashups have been around for a while–take subway stop site Hopstop, which uses Yahoo Maps, for example–but this is the first time that Google has incorporated that data into its standard map search.It doesn’t look like this has spread to mobile platforms yet; some mobile users claim they cannot see any building outlines or subway stops incorporated.
Additionally, as one Boston-based CNET editor pointed out, the same “M” logo for the New York City subway is used to represent Boston’s T system and San Francisco’s BART. London’s Underground and Paris’ Metro are marked by their own symbols.