Tom’s Hardware had the opportunity to talk to William Bright, who created the website iPodSubwayMaps.com, which has come under fire from officials claiming copyright infringement.
From Tom’s Hardware:
Bright said he was inspired to make the website after reading an article on Lifehacker.com. In the article, a guy planned a road trip via Google Maps and then cut up the route images into small pieces for his iPod. Bright wasn’t going to take a trip across the U.S., but he did adapt the technique for subways. “I thought it was a novel idea, but wholly unpractical for a city dweller such as myself, however the subway maps here in New York would be rather handy on my iPod,” says Bright. After that moment of inspiration, www.ipodsubwaymaps.com was born.
Continue on to Tom’s Hardware and read more about how Bright spent a dozen more hours drawing his own subway maps after transit officials demanded that he remove the old ones from his site.