Explore Taipei

[English] Not bad, though it doesn’t evolve much. This new version just changes the color (and updates the stations, which is normal for a paid app), nothing special about it. But where it gets quite annoying is that there’s still no transcription for the names of the stations. There’s only ideograms and english names. Go ask a Taiwanese your way to "Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall 站" and he will smile at you but won’t give you any direction. Taipei isn’t an english speaking city, it’s not Singapore or Hong Kong ! Zhuyin is the national phonetic transcription here, use it. ㄒㄧㄝˋ ㄒㄧㄝˋ！ [Français] Pas mal comme application, même si elle n’évolue pas (la nouvelle interface n’est vraiment qu’un changement de couleurs). Rien de vraiment extraordinaire autrement, ce n’est qu’une carte. Par contre, là où ça chie dans la colle, c’est qu’il n’y a toujours aucune transcription phonétique du nom des stations, ce qui est assez hallucinant dans un pays qui n’est PAS anglophone. Taipei, c’est pas Singapour ni Hong Kong.

This app is nice to check metro map, check where we are with the GPS, all that offline. But it's still too limited. Impossible to search for an address in the city so I have to search on another map first and then double check where it is on that map... And I can t even put a flag to remember where something is for later use... Update please.

離缐地圖很簡陋。沒有行車時間表及計算，只有第一班及末班車發車時間。

Does the trick, easy to use, and straightforward. Not sure what a previous comment refers to about this pointing to Google Maps...not the case. It's a fully contained, stand alone app. Well done! UPDATED 07.23.14 Have relied on this app for two Taipei trips now. As someone who travels extensively by Metro, this is the single most-used app on my phone. Would be sunk without it. Great work, folks!

This is the only MRT Taipei helper with new routes and up to date. US$ 1.99 was well worth it.

And if you have a connection, what is the point? This app is merely a portal to google maps. I somehow thought I was getting something else.

I agree. Not bad as a free app but there are better ones if one is to pay.

It's not my best-experienced metro route planner, but it surely is the best one for Taipei. I downloaded it when it was free. I don't think it worth 1.99 dollars.

I've been using the Explore Shanghai and Explore Beijing Metro maps and they both work great, so I downloaded Taipei and Hong Kong too - unfortunately, even if your phone is in Chinese mode, the Chinese characters do not show up on the Taipei map. Considering that Taiwan mandarin romanization is based on the Wade Giles system instead of "pinyin", it makes Chines pronounciation of place names impossible. Also, reguardless of the language your phone interface is set to, there should be an easy way to toggle between English, Simplified and Traditional display of each place name, as talking to Taiwanese, Westerners or Mainlanders not having the ability to conviently use their native display weakens the software.