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Apple Maps Expands Transit Data to San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth

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Apple continues to build upon the transit coverage of Apple Maps, today adding the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and the City of San Antonio to supported areas in Texas. The support marks the first expansion of transit coverage beyond the state's capital of Austin.

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In Dallas and Fort Worth, Apple will now offer up several city transit routes, including transportation by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail commuter service, streetcar and bus lines, and the Skylink at DFW Airport.

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In San Antonio, coverage is concentrated within the Connolly Loop (Interstate 410), and takes in the city's VIA Metropolitan Transit system.

Transit directions were first added to Apple Maps in 2015 as part of iOS 9. At launch, transit information was only available in a handful of cities, but Apple has been working hard to expand the feature to additional locations.

Transit data is now available in more than 20 cities around the world, along with dozens of cities in China.

(Thanks, Ram!)

Article Link: Apple Maps Expands Transit Data to San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/15/apple-maps-transit-data-san-antonio-dallas/
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Seriously Macrumors, an update on this for every city of two? There are thousands of majors cities worldwide. This is gonna take a while.
 
TC03 said:
Seriously Macrumors, an update on this for every city of two? There are thousands of majors cities worldwide. This is gonna take a while.
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That's exactly why it's good of Macrumors to publish news articles about it. There are so many cities, it's just too much work to find out yourself where Transit has expanded to. If it would finally be available in the Netherlands, I'd want to know for sure. :p
 
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In Dallas-Fort Worth, Apple will now offer up routes that include transportation by the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail commuter service and streetcar line, as well as the Skylink at DFW Airport.
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So just Dallas then and not Fort Worth at all? You know they are two giant cities, right? Only our airport is shared. Not our public transit. The names matter in your article. As written, it only mentions transit for one of the two cities and ignores the other city with nearly a million people in its population. (Fort Worth currently has 812,000 in its population).

For those 45 miles west of Dallas, it does look like the T bus line is working for directions this morning! If you wanted to travel to Dallas via Union Station the TRE is connecting in Maps as well.
 
TC03 said:
Seriously Macrumors, an update on this for every city of two? There are thousands of majors cities worldwide. This is gonna take a while.
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Perhaps, but I don't see the harm in the editors publishing stories about them. I suppose some of the readers here would live in those cities and may not otherwise notice these additions without seeing the MacRumors story.
 
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icanhazsabres said:
So just Dallas then and not Fort Worth at all? You know they are two giant cities, right? Only our airport is shared. Not our public transit. The names matter in your article. As written, it only mentions transit for one of the two cities and ignores the other city with nearly a million people in its population. (Fort Worth currently has 812,000 in its population).

For those 45 miles west of Dallas, it does look like the T bus line is working for directions this morning! If you wanted to travel to Dallas via Union Station the TRE is connecting in Maps as well.
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This post is nonsensical, complains that Fort Worth transit wasn't added before pointing out that it has in fact been added. Bit of an inferiority complex.
 
icanhazsabres said:
So just Dallas then and not Fort Worth at all? You know they are two giant cities, right? Only our airport is shared. Not our public transit. The names matter in your article. As written, it only mentions transit for one of the two cities and ignores the other city with nearly a million people in its population. (Fort Worth currently has 812,000 in its population).

For those 45 miles west of Dallas, it does look like the T bus line is working for directions this morning! If you wanted to travel to Dallas via Union Station the TRE is connecting in Maps as well.
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I didn't know Fort Worth existed. I always thought it was just another suburb of Dallas.
 
Houston is left out in the cold it seems. Makes sense considering our transit system is an abysmal mess. I once read an interview with a transit director here where he said sidewalks weren't important because "they don't get people from A to B." This is the city that thought building the widest highway in the world (26 lanes across) was the solution, costing billions of dollars, just to discover the day construction finished that it was STILL a complete mess with bumper-to-bumper traffic.
 
parseckadet said:
Houston is left out in the cold it seems. Makes sense considering our transit system is an abysmal mess. I once read an interview with a transit director here where he said sidewalks weren't important because "they don't get people from A to B." This is the city that thought building the widest highway in the world (26 lanes across) was the solution, costing billions of dollars, just to discover the day it opened that it was STILL a complete mess with bumper-to-bumper traffic.
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Highways are so inefficient.
 
I wish Apple Maps had an option to display bus route maps. Right now you have to search and it will show bus routes, but I want to see them laid out in the city. This is especially important for cities where bus routes are more important than trains.
 
It also expanding to San Deigo county a few days ago.

Wait, you did report on that... Long before Apple sent out the notification. o_O
 
Apple Maps just launched in Vancouver, BC, Canada as well.

It looks quite nice. I wish it allowed the user to select the preferred mode of Transit. In Vancouver we have Skytrain Rail, Seabus, and Busses. I wish I could say show me options that have seabus and Rail (never effected by traffic) over buses.

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jozero said:
Apple Maps just launched in Vancouver, BC, Canada as well.

It looks quite nice. I wish it allowed the user to select the preferred mode of Transit. In Vancouver we have Skytrain Rail, Seabus, and Busses. I wish I could say show me options that have seabus and Rail (never effected by traffic) over buses.

EDIT : Old news ! Old News !
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What would be best is if they supported multi-modal transport. Lots of people live a ways away from where train/bus service. That's what park-n-ride lots are for. I wish Apple would give you directions that would give you driving directions to the closest park-n-ride, and then transition seamlessly to transit directions from there.
 
The Dallas Fort Worth Region Public Transit System is split into three different agencies which operate and cover different parts of the metroplex. The agencies are:

- Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART). The largest system in the area covering Dallas, Collin and Rockwall Counties. www.dart.org
- Fort Worth Transportation Authority (The T). The second largest system in the area covering Tarrant County. www.the-t.com
- Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA). The third largest system in the area covering Denton County. www.dcta.net

Today's update includes support for all these agencies and their managed systems and routes, but also comes 2 weeks before there is a Major Service Change taking place on Monday, August 26. Some of our routes and schedules are changing on that date.

While I welcome today's update, it's less reliable than getting transit information directly from the agencies. It's better than and nothing and late than never I suppose.
 
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SandboxGeneral said:
Perhaps, but I don't see the harm in the editors publishing stories about them. I suppose some of the readers here would live in those cities and may not otherwise notice these additions without seeing the MacRumors story.
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Indeed. I live in Dallas, and I appreciate knowing that this has been added. The DART rail app, however, is unfortunately horrendous. It frequently fails to buy tickets for me, and it abjectly refuses to remember my totally random password that gets texted to me.

Thanks to both MacRumors and Ram for letting us know about this.
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Transit data is now available in more than 20 cities around the world, along with dozens of cities in China.

(Thanks, Ram!)

Article Link: Apple Maps Expands Transit Data to San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth
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I'm very interested to find out that China is not a place "around the world" - you know, somehow "different" and additional.
 
AdonisSMU said:
I didn't know Fort Worth existed. I always thought it was just another suburb of Dallas.
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Right! Many people think that because of the way the city is written about, but in fact it is an entirely separate place. The metroplex is a bit strange compared to other places as there are many medium-large cities so near one another. Dallas is around 380 square miles and Fort Worth is nearly as large at 349 square miles. They are well connected by a good highway system but definitely separate. Our cities are in fact pretty competitive!
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Creek0512 said:
This post is nonsensical, complains that Fort Worth transit wasn't added before pointing out that it has in fact been added. Bit of an inferiority complex.
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To clarify, I was criticizing the article for leaving out that important fact and writing in an unclear manner which would have been more informative. Also, as another commenter pointed out, most of the rest of the country doesn't know that the metroplex of Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Denton, and 10 other medium to large cities are even around. In total, the 14 cities have a population of over 7 million people. So it's a big deal to a lot of people to know if their specific city is included! Perhaps the writer can add the details about which cities have been given transit data and which have not.
 
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