[nylug-talk] OT - city wide GPS question???

[R. Drew Davis]

My SONY TJ37 has a PDF viewer in it, but when I downloaded a PDF file of
the NYC subway map from the web to my memory stick, it wouldn't open in
the PDA.   There were no messages, but I figured it was something to do
with memory limitations that kept it from opening even a peephole view
of the big map.

I have seen that there are iPOD downloads of the map - in the form of a
zillion little tiles.   I don't have an iPOD so I don't know how usable
that version of the map is.

I took a look at MetrO last night.   Pretty spiffy, but it knows
connectivity, not schedules, and it doesn't know at all about the NYC
bus routes.   I asked it how to get from Penn Station to the
Metropolitan Museum and instead of sending me to the M4 bus at 32nd St.
that drops you off at 83rd and Madison, it sent me via subway, with 2
changes of train, to 86th and Lexington, a bit more of a walk from the
museum entrance on 5th Ave.   I was impressed that it knew the Long
Island Railroad stations, but again, without it knowing the schedule,
it's advice for getting to Westbury from Penn Station is strictly to
take the train to Westbury.   There are twice as many trains to
Hicksville, and often the right choice, if you are in a hurry, depending
on the time of day is to take the train to Hicksville, the next station
along the line, after Westbury, and then double-back on the bus from
Hicksville station back into Westbury.   I guess I was setting my hopes
too high for what MetrO would "know" for me.

Drew

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 13:56 -0500, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, VaibhaV Sharma wrote:
> 
> > Well, for the simple purpose of accessing public transportation info  
> > on the go, I use this on my Nokia E50 -
> > 
> > http://www.nanika.net/metro/
> 
> Weird - I once started working on a similar app for Symbian devices and I 
> also called it Metro...
> 
> Often subway maps are available as PDFs which you can carry on a flash 
> card and open on a lot of mobile phones/devices devices these days (Im 
> sure the Symbian devices have a PDF reader available).
> 
>