going on a journey, it is important to have on hand, not only maps, GPS-navigator and interpreter, but the circuit lines to navigate an unfamiliar city in the metro. In terms of urban traffic congestion need them and those who are not frequent users of public transport, for example, to choose the best mashrut and calculate the travel time. Vesti.Haytek offer to the reading review of the best applications for Android, which will help you not to get lost in the subway.
Yandeks.Metro
Perhaps the most popular reference book on the subway platform at Google. Helps continue the shortest path between stations, locates by GPS (though he does not always accurately) and highlights the station to the movement. Available – all new Moscow subway station, including Novokosino Pyatnitskoe, Alma-Ata, etc., as well as a line of “light” metro.
addition to the capital’s subway, the program integrated circuits St. Petersburg, Kiev, Kharkiv and Minsk. If your smartphone has NFC-chip, then, putting the travel to the smartphone, “Yandeks.Metro” will show the expiration of its term, the number of remaining trips and date of purchase. However, a new type of tickets (“three”) in the Moscow metro, this function can not be read. In addition, “Yandeks.Metro” gives clues to what train car better come to get faster.
there at the program and cons. First, when the application calculates the travel time, it does not include the time for transfer between stations, as well as during rush hour. Second, it contains the circuit lines only Russia and the CIS.
Version Android: from 1.5;
Developer: “Yandex”;
License: Free;
Download from Google Play
aMetro
Unlike “Yandeks.Metro” contains metropolitenovskie maps of many other cities in Russia (Nizhny Novgorod, Orel, Samara, Kazan, and some others), not only in Moscow but also of the world (from New York and Paris to Donetsk and Tokyo). In addition to the subway, there is a water bus routes and trains. When nebhodimo can continue downloading the map of any interest of the city.
Unfortunately, developers do not support the database schema up to date: the last time the program is updated two years ago. On the map of Moscow, for example, there is the recently opened stations (Zyablikovo, Alma-Ata), and Culture Park is listed as still under reconstruction.
Version Android: from 1.5;
Developer: Roman Golovanov;
License: Free;
Download from Google Play
Moscow Metro in 2013
involved in the program is the new map of the Moscow Metro, designed by the “Studio Art Lebedev.” Use the application is very simple: set a point of departure and point of destination, it will show a list of stations through which you have to drive, the estimated travel time and where to change trains. Other pluses could be considered a full-fledged work offline.
Disadvantages applications – a very small area in which the navigation on the map where you can not even zoom in on double “tapom.” In addition, the route to the circuit itself is not shown, the upcoming trip will only be a list of stations.
Version Android: from 2.2;
Developer: I AM Tool;
License: Free;
Download from Google Play
Metro Map
More than just a navigation device: in addition to the stations themselves, displays some places public transport (with schedule), airports (including aeroexpress) and train stations. Not inferior in terms of convenience “Yandeks.Metro” and contains many more schemes.
program is perfect for the traveler: it is, as Russian maps (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Samara) and international (Ukraine, USA, UK, Spain, France, Germany, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Japan, China, etc.). New towns program is updated regularly.
By analogy with “by Yandex,” shows how to take better car to drive faster, and how long it will take a trip (including transitions). Also able to read the trip with NFC (other than “three”). Paid version of the app costs 125 rubles.
Version Android: from 2.2;
Developer: Dmitry Lozenko;
License: 125 rubles;
Download from Google Play
Tickets Moscow Metro
create a plug-in for “Metro Maps”, but it can run as a standalone application. Knows how to read useful information from the ticket – when it was purchased, at what station and what time used, number, number of remaining trips, purchase date, expiration date, etc. To do this, you need to make travel to the back of the smartphone that has NFC-chip (Model HTC One, Galaxy Nexus, Sony Xperia Z, LG Optimus G, Nexus 4, etc.).
To activate the sensor in Android, go to ‘Settings’, ‘More …’ , and put the checkbox in front NFC. Supports single ticket type (metro, tram, bus, trolley), and “90 Minutes” on all modes of transport. With the “troika” of the program is not compatible.
Version Android: from 2.2.3;
Developer: Dmitry Lozenko;
License: Free;
Download from Google Play
Subway World
This guidebook for travelers. Schemes in Metro Subway World there, but he knows how to receive detailed directions to attractions / stations, indicating how far to go on foot, on which station to go and how to travel stops.
Object names are duplicated in English and in Russian. By clicking on the button with i, mark the station can be seen on the city map. And if you get lost in an unfamiliar city, after clicking on the icon with the GPS application will point the way to the nearest subway.
Version Android: from 1.6;
Developer: Belemnite Software;
License: Free;
Download from Google Play
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