City map to be retired
I’m sorry to report that the ExploreShanghai city map will be taken offline at the end of the year.
Unfortunately due to work commitments I haven’t had time to really finish it or implement new features, and that looks unlikely to change for the foreseeable future. Shanghai still desperately needs a good English-language online street map, and if you want to develop one I wish you good luck!
The good news is I will continue to update the metro map with new lines, stations and features: see the next post for more details!
keep exploring
matt
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November 26th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Matt, sorry to hear that the city map is to be retired. I really like your map service but I agree with you that maintaining a good english-language map is very time consuming. i am curious to know where will this map go?
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Oh no! I counted on the city map to learn the hanzi! Any recommendation as to where to find an online map that lets you toggle?
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:59 pm
[...] some bad news: explore shanghai has retired its city map . Of course, I’m tricky and was able to find it again. I liked to use explore shanghai [...]
December 2nd, 2007 at 9:20 pm
The old map is still available at
http://www.exploreshanghai.com/beta/ for the time being.
UUmap (www.uumap.com) have a toggleable map – though it only seems to work properly in Internet Explorer.
Try http://www.uumap.com/?cityCode=310000 and click the small E/中 button underneath the zoom slider to toggle.
December 15th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/index.php?name=map&map_language=en Shanghai Expat also have a dual-language map
The best of the Chinese maps are probably Google and Microsoft’s offerings:
http://ditu.google.com/
http://ditu.live.com/
December 21st, 2007 at 9:20 pm
SmartShanghai.com has a good online map:
http://www.smartshanghai.com/maps/smsh_map.php
December 31st, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Well, I’ll use uumap for now, but it’s not as cool as yours. And besides smartshanghai maps errors (no, i haven’t reported them, I know I should) I still don’t know how to toggle it to see hanzi. please leave your beta map up, it’s still more useful to me!
June 30th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
For information on some of the challenges involved with making a good online street map in China, you can read this interview with Microsoft’s Vincent Tao: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/live-maps-in-china-an-intervie.html