How To Add Subway Maps To Your IPhone : Iphone App

11.16.2009 · Posted in Apple App

One of the first truly useful hacks for the iPod was adding maps to the photo and video capable models, and of course, since the iPhone is no different than an iPod when it comes to photos, you can easily do the same with your phone.

How To Add Subway Maps To Your IPhone : Iphone App

New York City

If you’re an iPhone user living in New York, head over to Khoi Vinh’s Subtraction blog and grab his pre-compiled zip file of New York Subway map images to stash on your iPhone. Using the tile feature of the thumbnail view in Photo Albums you can re-make the whole map and then zoom on individual sections. A flick of the finger moves to the next “quadrant.”

As Vinh clarifies: “This makes the map much more navigable, because if you have a mental understanding of how the city’s boroughs are laid out, you intuitively know which tile to jump to in order to find your stop.”

Vinh’s maps are based on the MTA’s subway maps and we suspect at some point he’ll get a stop and desist letter from the MTA so grab them while they’re available.