Boston MBTA on Google Maps
Posted Tuesday, May 17th, 2005 at 5:58 am
Ever get confused with Boston street maps not easily coinciding with bus routes and T stops?
Google maps can now show MBTA routes if you are willing to set this up:
1) Get Mozilla Firefox - here
2) Get Greasemonkey extension here.
3) Get the Google Greasemonkey MBTA mapper javascript here.
And now try doing a search for somewhere in Boston using Firefox on Google Maps. You’ll see a “MBTA”NEW! link near the satellite image link.
You’ll end up seeing a map overlay with all the MBTA lines just like this:
Note: tool does not provide any extra mapping of areas not covered by MBTA. Also does not work in conjunction with the Grasemonkey Google anonymizer script, so just stick to this one if you’re gonna try a greased up Googe Maps.
May 25th, 2005 at 9:32 pm
Thought this might be use to people using Firefox and living in Boston…
I’ve been looking for a new house in the Boston area recently and found myself wanting to know 2 things about each address:
1. How long to drive to my work on 495?
2. How long for my wife to ride to Back Bay?
I wrote an extension to do that. I’ve recently extended it to work with any Boston area address.
Highlight address… get directions driving or riding the T to/from it:
http://www.bleonard.com/bleonard/firefox1.htm