Google Maps Adds NYC Subway Stops

It’s about time! Within the past two days or so, Google silently added New York City subway station stops to Google Maps, visible at the three most zoomed-in views of the city. Here’s an example from Lower Manhattan.

Microsoft’s MSN Maps & Directions site, also known as MapBlast, has had this feature for years and it bugged me greatly that Google would futz around with monumental eye-candy like Google Earth when they were missing such a basic, essential aspect of their NYC maps. Barring copyright issues, now they only need to add the correctly numbered/lettered and colored line logos instead of the generic white-on-blue “metro stop” icons they’re using now.