Apple Maps Expands Transit Data to Montreal

[lazyrighteye]

Let's go Denver!
*clap, clap, clap clap clap*

 

[teslo]

So because Google spend 10 years on their mapping it means Apple has to do so also?

That makes absolutely no sense, and the entire world would've stopped long ago if everyone had to wait for everyone else to catch up.

wait - an 8 year head-start (google early 2005) should be lapsed by others (apple late 20012) in a couple years? i think your statement makes way less sense realistically.

 

[Fzang]

wait - an 8 year head-start (google early 2005) should be lapsed by others (apple late 20012) in a couple years? i think your statement makes way less sense realistically.

What I'm saying is, it makes no sense for apologists to say "Apple Maps is good, given the short time it's been live", when it's objectively much much worse than Google Maps. You're essentially comparing Apple Maps to itself. Quite a subjective metric to judge an app by. Of course it's better than it was last year, or the year before.

 

[Keirasplace]

The pace new cities are being added is a complete joke for a company the size of Apple. It shows how low-priority Maps is for them.

There are several dozens cities in the Toronto and Montreal regiion (in fact if you look at Toronto coverage, Apple and Google are pretty close in coverage), so in fact they just need to Cover Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa to get 90% of the public transit in Canada, I expect them to get here by the end of the year. That's not that long since they launched.

Within one year, I expect all north american public transit in major cities and surroundings will be done.
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What I'm saying is, it makes no sense for apologists to say "Apple Maps is good, given the short time it's been live", when it's objectively much much worse than Google Maps. You're essentially comparing Apple Maps to itself. Quite a subjective metric to judge an app by. Of course it's better than it was last year, or the year before.

No its not MUCH WORSE, in fact around here they're now the same (In Montreal).

 

[n-evo]

There are several dozens cities in the Toronto and Montreal regiion (in fact if you look at Toronto coverage, Apple and Google are pretty close in coverage), so in fact they just need to Cover Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa to get 90% of the public transit in Canada, I expect them to get here by the end of the year. That's not that long since they launched.

I wasn't talking about Canada per se, Transit support as a whole. Worldwide. Google Maps covers the entire the Netherlands: trains, metros, trams, busses, regional busses, ferries, etc. from all transit authorities have real time data. Apple: none.

Kinda unforgiving in a country where public transportation is responsible for a large chuck of journeys made.