[easterncalculus]

Maps are to be read. If you want a subway map to frame for your apartment, then the current/old one looks nice, but the new one is just easier to read - particularly in a moving subway car, through a dirty pane, and from 3 feet away. Especially in the age of smartphones, if you're doing navigation on a train (or station) you likely don't have a phone or are already lost, the map should be optimized to be easy to read in either scenario.

[vrosas]

The best advice I got before moving to NYC was to download a PDF of the subway map to Books on my phone. That has saved me countless times.

[vlmutolo]

The Underway app is basically an interactive version of this (NYC-specific). It’s just the transit map, but you can click on stations to see current arrival/departure times (“3min”) and MTA notices for lines going through that station.

[altairprime]

Also good advice for college campuses! It can handle their 35MB detailed PDfs perfectly well.