One of the features that's requested most often is the ability to overlap lines. Some of you have very helpfully sent in screenshots of maps that would look a lot better if line overlapping were possible. I always appreciate feature requests and suggestions, but it's extra
There's a lot of new features I want to add to Metro Map Maker, but each new feature typically adds some new button or takes up additional space in the menu, which is starting to get a bit crowded. The menu can be collapsed, which hides some of
Check out what's new, and go have fun making maps! If you find a bug I missed during testing, please let me know about it by emailing shannon@metromapmaker.com (or reply to this email) and I'll try to fix it as soon as I can.
In my last sneak preview on the Select tool, I showed how in Metro Map Maker v7.2 you'll be able to select a portion of the map and move just that portion, instead of moving the entire map at once. But the Select tool (keyboard shortcut: T)
Years ago, I was invited to a transit meetup held at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) HQ to give a demo of Metro Map Maker. It was a really fun night, and I enjoyed getting to show off the site to a friendly crowd. Afterwards, an attendee suggested
First off, thanks again for everyone's patience – I know many of you signed up long ago for Metro Map Maker updates, and while I've been a bit quiet lately, I'm restarting development and am excited to deliver some new features for you soon. Thank
I know many of you signed up earlier this year for Metro Map Maker updates, and while I haven't posted much since releasing version 7.1, I'm restarting development! I'm almost finished testing, and soon, Metro Map Maker will be faster on Firefox. In
Hi everyone! For some of you it's been a long time since you signed up for updates on Metro Map Maker development, and I wanted to thank everyone for your patience. Since my last update, I've been pretty busy in my personal life. Some highlights include:
Thank you to everyone who took the Metro Map Maker v7.1 Feedback Survey! There were 70 responses, and I think the results are fascinating! This will really help me to plan out future versions, so thank you again to everyone who participated. Here's what I asked, and
A few days after the version 7.1 release, I sent around a quick 12-question survey asking Metro Map Maker visitors like you to share your feedback on how you're liking the new update. If you've already completed the v7.1 feedback survey, thank you! You
Do you use keyboard shortcuts in Metro Map Maker? If you do, you probably save yourself lots of time when making maps! You might want to bookmark this page – as I add new keyboard shortcuts, I'll update this list: * A * B * C: Collapse / Expand menu * D: Draw * E:
Over the years, I've gotten lots of great feedback and suggestions from Metro Map Maker visitors like you. Some have told me about bugs they found, others have requested new features. I love hearing from the community, whether it's suggestions, feedback, or sharing a map you&
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Check out what's new, and go have fun making maps! If you find a bug I missed during testing, please let me know about it by emailing shannon@metromapmaker.com and I'll try to fix it as soon as I can. It's extra helpful
v7.1
In case you missed my earlier post or the v7.1 announcement video (embedded below), version 7.1 will be released on Wednesday, January 15th at 10:00 am New York time. If you already knew that, have already read all the sneak preview posts, and already watched the video
Survey
So far, I've written lots of sneak previews of new features coming soon in Metro Map Maker version 7.1, shared some of my favorite maps, and even shared some fun artifacts from a visit to the Library of Congress where I went searching for a map from
Cutting Room Floor
(In case you missed it, version 7.1 is releasing on Wednesday, January 15th! Read about all the updates coming soon or watch the teaser video) Originally, I wanted Metro Map Maker version 7.1 to be very small – just a couple of new line styles. But as I was
v7.1
As soon as I finished work on version 7 (released in November), I got started on version 7.1, and I'm very excited to share this new update with you. Since the last release focused on adding line styles and letting you mix and match line widths and
I started 2024 with an intention to build lots of new features for Metro Map Maker, and I'm proud of all the hard work I put in. I'm especially proud of: * Adding new line and station styles so you can customize your maps. Washington DC'
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This will be the final sneak preview of version 7.1, and you might be able to guess from that I've got an announcement coming soon. Today's sneak preview is another new line style, this time a set of dotted squares. Like I mentioned in the
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Today's post is a sneak preview of another line style coming in version 7.1, this time inspired by the Paris Metro map. In an earlier version of the Paris Metro map I came across (seen above in the featured image for this post), the T1 line has
v7.1
Today's post is another new line style coming in version 7.1, a hollow line style similar to Hollow Open (London Overground) but instead of the lines being open, they're capped with a flat edge. Whenever I add a new line style, I typically test a
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Version 7.1 will have lots of new line styles, one new station style, and a handful of new features designed to make it so much quicker and easier to make maps with Metro Map Maker. Today's post is about a new line style I'm calling
v7.1
Version 6 and version 7 both took several months of hard work. Both versions involved some pretty major changes to how Metro Map Maker worked behind the scenes. For example, in order to make all maps browsable in version 6, I needed to create a system to turn map data
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Here's another sneak preview of what I've been working on for version 7.1 – another line style, this one inspired by an old map of Minsk I saw in Transit Maps of the World. Minsk's planned extensions have a solid line that are shown