Google Maps Adds Service Alerts for New York City Subways
Google announced on Tuesday it is rolling out planned service alerts for New York City’s subway system within Google Maps.
To make it easier for New Yorkers to commute and keep them posted on scheduled maintenance and delays, Google is adding information about service alerts that occur throughout the city’s 468 subway stations labeled on Google Maps.
“Since first making New York City public transit directions available in Google Maps, we’ve been working to deliver you with the most accurate and useful information about subway, bus, commuter rail, and ferry service across the greater metro area,” Csaba Garay, transit partner technology manager at Google Maps, said via its company blog. “Starting today, we’ll also be showing planned service alerts for the city’s subways, which serve more than 200 million people every year.”
Google said alerts will automatically be included in the step-by-step transit directions pointing users where to go.
“We’re regularly adding new cities and features globally and looking forward to continuing our efforts to make travel by public transpor
BONUS: 12 Mysterious Google Maps Sightings
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This natural formation in Alberta, Canada is known as the Badlands Guardian and looks strikingly similar to a native American wearing a headdress. If you look close enough, it looks like he's wearing a pair of earphones, but that section is actually a man-made road and oil well.
The Firefox crop circle in Oregon was created by the Oregon State University Linux Users group in 2006 to mark the web browser's 50 millionth download.
This shipwreck in the Red Sea is captured on Google Maps.
The Portlaoise Maximum Security Prison in Portlaoise, County Laois in Ireland looks like it's been Photoshopped. Although we're not sure why, an uncited entry on Wikipedia states that an old satellite picture of the facility from 2005 has been edited over a new picture of the area for security reasons.
This mysterious crop circle is located near the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, also known as Area 52. The area is owned by the United States Department of Energy and is a restricted military installation.
This plane flying above Rock Hill, S.C. evokes a rainbow of colors as it soars through the air.
We're not entirely sure why this location in Russia has been blurred out, especially since it's in the Siberian tundra. The closest city is Egvekinot, Russia, which is a neighbor to Alaska across the Bering Strait.
Aside from the city of Pyongyang, much of North Korea is not visible on Google Maps. Zooming in to North Korea -- a nation known for its Internet censorship -- will most likely get you an up-close look at rocky terrain.
The letter "Z" is etched into the desert in Coahuila, México. It represents the "Los Zetas," one of the most powerful groups in the Mexican drug cartel, according to GoogleSightseeing.com
This street capture in Glendora, Calif. has a peculiar message over one part of the area when you zoom in a bit too much. Some theorists on the Internet believe a UFO was edited out here, according to GoogleSightseeing.com. To see what we mean, click on the link above and zoom in.
This structure looks like a UFO landed on top of the Inkpot building in the Netherlands, but it's actually supposed to look that way. The UFO statue was added as a part of a previously held exhibition and was never removed.
Google Maps captured this image -- not a crop circle -- over the lawn of a home in suburban town of Nawton, in the Hamilton region of New Zealand.
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