DC Metro Stations - Yahoo! Addresses



About:
Being that I travel by Metro train here in DC (WMATA), I often need to know the exact location of a particular Metro stop so I know how far I'll have to walk to/from, etc. Yahoo! Maps has an extremely cool feature (SmartView) that lets you choose to mark all 'Public Transportation' entities on your selected map (@see SmartView Example). But, I wanted to be able to start at any Metro station and map to a particular street address. For that, I needed all of the Metro locations I'd ever want to use in my personal Yahoo! Maps. I have done this and made it relatively easy for you to import these addresses into your Yahoo! Maps account - all 86 of them.

Install:
Steps:
1) Sign into Yahoo!. If already signed in, you will see a 'Welcome, [your_username]' message when you click here. If you see 'Sign in' instead, then go ahead and sign in, and then close the window.
2) Add addresses:
    
    [If you have a fast connection, it may not look like the popped-up window is
    doing anything, but it is. You can stop/restart at any time without harming anything.]
    Number/Name of Added Station (of 86, total):
3) Go to Yahoo! Maps and check if all the stations were added under 'Metro - [station name]'.
* The following locations have been added to your addresses, but their locations are not exact - they are the nearest street addresses that I could find to the Metro stations, respectively. For whatever reason, Yahoo! Maps does not map these locations appropriately. The following links are directions to these stops:
SmartView Example:
This map of location 'Washington, DC' shows many of the Metro train stations in and around Washington, DC. Notice the SmartView selection on the right.

Details:
The list of DC Metro stations used to build this tool is here. That to WMATA for hooking us up with street addresses for each station. Yahoo Maps

Screenshots:


Author: Peter Smith
(the art of the possible)