So for the past few days I’ve been planning on putting up a post about Gawker’s new “Smells of the Subway” map. It’s supposed to be a really cool map of the New York Subway system that uses pops to show reader reports of smells in NY Subway stations.
Unfortunately, the map is down… 
It seems that Gawker relies on a map that On NY Turf created through Google Maps. The trouble is that on NY turf is down. Heading to their website you get the following message:
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* 404 Edition: Our Server Is a Piece of Crap! *
Where Did We Go?!
Posted: October 6th
onNYTurf is going to try to enjoy this chaos while it lasts, but first, some anger.I have very little clue what has happened to the server. Early Oct 5 I woke up to find the site missin. How is it possible that I have no clue what the problem is? The data center apparently can’t find the light switch or tie their shoe laces, so my host and thus I seem to have idea when the server is coming back.So what to do? Well, I still have to learn their name, but when I do I will be making many sarcastic images depicting their competence and small penis size. Stay tuned
We Don’t Care As Long As You Get The Subway Map Working
Posted: October 6th
What a problem!
Throwing together the code for a basic subway map site is pretty easy, but getting all the artwork up is not as simple. Its hundreds of megabites of tiles, and I don’t keep a local copy of all of them, just the big source art from which I cut the tiles. It would take days to cut them fresh, and the old site should better be back up by then!
So, no subway map for now. :
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