Maps and Navigation
It’s amazing what google has spawned. This is a list of Toronto area maps and navigation tools.
The Beer Hunter shows all the LCBOs and Beer Stores not only by location, but also with phone number and hours of operation! No more anxiously walking two blocks north only to turn back and try five blocks east on a Friday night. There’s even real-time updating which tells you immediately whether a particular store is open or closed.
The Toronto Pizza Site has the same idea in mind for pizza. Unfortunately it uses a list (over a hundred results for Central Toronto) though maps to individual sites can be generated. Of course you can always search by postal code.
Wikimapia has a Toronto Area Map which is a collective effort to label and explain the world. Find neighbourhoods, buildings, markets, museums, parks and more. Add them yourself. Fun to browse and occasionally useful, if only for discovering new parts of your city.
Crazed Monkey designed the TTC transit Map that the TTC itself should have had a long time ago, showing all routes. Of course with Adam Giambrone as the new chief it might actually happen.
The other half of the equation is the Transit Toronto site, which deliberately reminds you that it is an enthusiast site and not official. It is however often more useful than the alternative for travel by any number of methods throughout the GTA.
Finally, having less to do with maps there is Biking Toronto which technically has a google map of bikestores in Toronto, though of late the link seems to be broken. Check it out.
And more can be found at the Google Maps Mania page. Timmies and Starbucks being one of the more useful.