You can now drag between any two stations on the metro map to see the quickest route and price. For example, you can see that Hong Kou Stadium to Xujiahui takes about 42 minutes and costs 5 rmb. I'll add an update soon to auto-scroll the map as you're dragging, so that you can connect distant stations. Please let me know of any bugs you find!

http://www.exploreshanghai.com/metro/ Two bonuses: the file size has been reduced to under 100kb now, and there's a basic zoom function (press the + and - keys on your keyboard). keep exploring, matt

New feature on the ExploreShanghai metro map, press the play button in the station "bubble" to hear a pronunciation of the station name. Currently available for some Line 1 stations only, www.exploreshanghai.com/metro/

Also corrected the name of a station (thanks Greg) and improved the dropdown list of stations. We got blogged earlier today! http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2007/01/29/the_metro_vendi.php

keep exploring matt