Google Maps has shown public transportation stops for a while in New York City (and…if I remember correctly, some other cities as well), but now they are taking it one step further and offering public transportation layers that show routes and stops in the colors that they are meant to be shown in.
So far, the list of cities is pretty extensive. These are the cities that now offer public transportation layers in Google Maps:
Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bordeaux, Brasilia, Cairo, Capetown, Caracas, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dallas, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Ekaterinburg, Essen, Frankfurt, Genoa, Guadalajara, Hamburg, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Kazan, Köln, Lille, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Medellin, Mexico City, Melbourne, Monterrey, Montreal, Munich, Naples, Nizhniy Novgorod, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Portland, Porto, Porto Alegre, Prague, Pretoria, Recife, Rennes, Rio de Janeiro, Samara, San Francisco, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tunis, Vienna, Warsaw.
The new public transportation layer accompanies photos, Wikipedia entries, and video layers available in most locations in Google Maps.
But seriously, why isn’t New York City there? I bet some stupid State Government red tape is preventing Google from displaying these maps. I wouldn’t be surprised if NYS/NYC wanted money from Google for showing these on Google Maps.
UPDATE: It looks like Google Maps has taken down the Melbourne public transportation layer. Who knows why.
