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> I have no idea what anyone else's experiences are, but I have never been so disappointed.

Not being in the US, google maps has never provided any kind of mass transit information. Apple's implementation not providing it doesn't really change anything.

The imprecision of the map, though, that's a problem (because it is a step back)



I'm not sure whether you're specifically talking about Google's maps on iOS or not, but Google's web and Android maps clients both provide bus and train times for much of the UK.


> I'm not sure whether you're specifically talking about Google's maps on iOS or not

I'm talking about Google Maps in general.

> Google's web and Android maps clients both provide bus and train times for much of the UK.

Good on you for living in the 51st state I guess? Many still get neither.


It's not uniformly available in the US either. If the local transit authority publishes the data in the right format, then Google will add it to their maps. I suppose if there's sufficient interest they might write a custom scraper.

My local transit authority thought this was a better idea: http://www.katbus.com


in many cases they can't offer it because the transit authorities do not wish to provide that data to Google.


I'm not saying it's Google's fault (I know it very likely isn't). steevdave opened the door to other people's experience re. mass transit on Google Maps versus Apple Maps, I gave mine.




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