[OSM-talk] SOTM-US: directions please

[Julio Costa Zambelli]

Andy,

I am a frugal traveller so I have always used the subway to/from JFK. From
any Airport terminal you take the Airtrain to "Howard Beach" (NOT Jamaica),
once there you only have A trains and you have to take one towards
Manhattan. You get off the train in the 14th Street station (it should be a
long trip, a little longer if its late night since the train will stop at
every station at that time of the day). From the station you walk a few
meters south to Jackson Square and then left (East) on West 13th Street (on
the Starbucks according to our map:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/40.73925/-74.00224) until you cross
7th Avenue.

To get to the UN Headquarters probably the easiest way is to walk to the
Union Square Station (three blocks away to the East) take the train 4 or 5
(Express) towards Bronx and get off the train in Grand Central 42nd Street
station and walk a few blocks East (until you reach the river ;)

If you combine http://web.mta.info/maps/submap.html and OSM it should be
quite easy. I do it that way every time.

Cheers,

Julio Costa Zambelli
Fundación OpenStreetMap Chile

julio.costa at openstreetmap.cl

http://www.openstreetmap.cl/
Cel: +56(9)89981083

On 4 June 2015 at 13:58, Nick Whitelegg <nick.whitelegg at solent.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> Well I visited New York in 2004 and then the choice was either a shuttle
> bus (which drops you off somewhere near Grand Central) or the monorail to
> an "A train" subway station which would take you into Manhattan.
>
> Once you're in Manhattan I guess you can just use an OSM map ;-)
>
> Obviously things might have changed now...
>
> Nick
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> Sent: 04 June 2015 16:38
> To: osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-talk] SOTM-US: directions please
>
> Ironic, given our subject of interest...
>
> I've searched online, but found no directions from JFK to the New
> Shool's 13th Street Residence, nor walking directions from there to
> the UN building.
>
> Could someone oblige, please?
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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