The onNYTurf Subway Map now has in place support for two new information features. Expanded subway station details, and language translations. Around these two new features onNYTurf is looking for community help! There is far to much data to collect from various sources and I only speak English and some high school level spanish, so I'm not very good at translating the map to Espanol, much less Chinese, Korean or Russian, which could server the NYC community well. So onNYTurf has two new community projects, the Subway Map Station Details Project and the Subway Map Translations Project. These are our second and third community projects. Our first of course is the ongoing Subway Map Entrances and Exits Project, which is going great. 90% - 100% of Brooklyn will be in place sometime around the new year. Though we need some help in Queens. You can spot which stations we still need details for on the map now, as most visitors have probably noticed, but if not click some of the stations out in Far Rockaway.

But I digress. This story is about the new community projects.

First our Expanded Station Details project. There have been a lot of requests to add various information to each station. From things like schedule info, and disability access, to transfer details and which entrances are best for which line. In addition its not been lost on me that the MTA's information on each station is not well organized. This project will centralize all information in wiki pages, one for each station, that can be loaded into the map. This will make it easy to learn everything you need to know about a station.

A first example is in place on the map now, the Time's Square Station has a More Info link on it, go to the map and click it and you will explode a large window as seen in this story's banner image.



We can add a virtually unlimited amount of information to these wiki pages, and any registered user can edit them. It is trivially simple to add more tabs, images, etc. Here you can see the ADA access information for Time's Square:



Though we'll want to be a little smart about what we add, and I will help guide overall organization and look and feel of the pages. The project page contains plenty of more information about how anyone can add a new station page. When pages are reasonably fit for display on the map I will manually hook them, this way we won't have total chaos and the quality level of the map can be maintained.

Our second project is to greatly improve the translations of the map. I'm particularly hopeful we can find some of you to pitch in on translating for Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Russian. Of course ANY translations are welcome!!! On the map there is a new menu of all the languages that onNYTurf currently has at least partial support for. In this image you can see we have pretty good support for Spanish, as carried over from the last version of the map, but there are some words missing of course.



Missing translations are displayed in English by default across all languages. It is very easy to input new translations. With just a little bit of time, its easy for translators make a huge difference. If you are interested in helping out with translations please email me at will@onnyturf.com as I have to give translators special permission to edit our translations.

Thank you all for your continued help!