Apple Maps Transit Data for Australia Extends to Melbourne, Victoria

[MacRumors]

Apple Maps has recently been updated with new transit data for Melbourne, Victoria, allowing users to navigate the city with the addition of public train, tram, and bus networks.

Before the update, Sydney, and New South Wales as a whole, were the only areas in Australia with Transit information available.

Transit directions became a helpful feature with the introduction of iOS 9, and has since expanded to be supported in 16 cities around the world.

Including Sydney, Transit directions can be found in Seattle, Austin, Baltimore, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Montreal, Toronto, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. There are also a few dozen cities in China that include Transit directions in Apple Maps.

(Thanks, Mike!)

Article Link: Apple Maps Transit Data for Australia Extends to Melbourne, Victoria

 

[jaymzdj]

Finally!

 

[fitshaced]

Surprised it took so long to show them how to get out of Melbourne by public transport

 

[lukasm]

This seems to cover the full vline network across Victoria as well, not just Melbourne. Directions from Melbourne to regional cities work great. It handles interstate trips with multiple connections from a suburb in Melbourne to a suburb in Sydney as well just fine!

 

[mitchsaunders]

Be nice if they could add Brisbane too...

 

[Donoban]

Thank you jesus!!!

 

[skier8689]

Still waiting on Paris

 

[supertomtom]

I've seen transit info here on the Gold Coast for the last month as well.

Edit: never mind. It routes you down to Tweed NSW with NSW translink first before heading back up to the Gold Coast, which isn't useful at all.

 

[Fzang]

Tried to demo my new Apple Watch to my girlfriend. Asked for directions to somewhere with Siri was all great, until she tapped "public transport", and I had to explain to her it wasn't available in our country, at all. One less Apple watch sold to the average consumer.

 

[dotnet]

Thank you jesus!!!

Is this a figure of speech? Otherwise I believe your gratitude is misplaced

 

[truthertech]

This seems to cover the full vline network across Victoria as well, not just Melbourne. Directions from Melbourne to regional cities work great. It handles interstate trips with multiple connections from a suburb in Melbourne to a suburb in Sydney as well just fine!

Yes, it's an ongoing problem with these quickie articles that they don't have or take time to research. Apple Maps now covers over a thousand cities because Apple Maps covers entire regions when it rolls out Transit support, but this article is written as though there are only a few. Compounding the problem. This article doesn't even list many of the "cities"/ regions in the US and the rest of the world

 

[Creek0512]

Yes, it's an ongoing problem with these quickie articles that they don't have or take time to research. Apple Maps now covers over a thousand cities because Apple Maps covers entire regions when it rolls out Transit support, but this article is written as though there are only a few. Compounding the problem. This article doesn't even list many of the "cities"/ regions in the US and the rest of the world

To be fair, those are also the only regions Apple claims to support on their own website. (The list usually runs a few weeks behind when Apple actually turns on transit directions in a new city, so Sao Paulo and Melbourne are not listed yet.)

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[petsounds]

I'm surprised that there's no cities covered in Japan yet, given how reliant they are on public transit.

 

[truthertech]

To be fair, those are also the only regions Apple claims to support on their own website. (The list usually runs a few weeks behind when Apple actually turns on transit directions in a new city, so Sao Paulo and Melbourne are not listed yet.)

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That's not accurate. The website lists twice as many cities as the article did. You should read your own link.

 

[Creek0512]

I'm surprised that there's no cities covered in Japan yet, given how reliant they are on public transit.

Apple has already announced that all of Japan will be added sometime this month.
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That's not accurate. The website lists twice as many cities as the article did. You should read your own link.

I'd be more accurate to say I didn't read through all of the article, but my main point was that Apple does not count all of the cities they add, only the primary cities.

 

[truthertech]

Here's the best article summarizing why Apple is rolling out transit region by region instead of just turning them all on at once like Google did. The superiority in Apple's method, and why it is so time consuming, is laid out very well

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/07/why-apples-transit-maps-are-rolling-out-so-slowly

 

[BlueParadox]

Great news. As a daily public transport traveller, looking forward to trying it out this morning & discovering the benefits...

 

[Juiceboy]

Be nice if they could add Brisbane too...

Translink can't even get an App right, i don't think apple has a chance

 

[ErikGrim]

Be nice if they could add Brisbane too...

Yes. Brisbane next please.

In the meantime, Embark is excellent. Superior to Citymapper even.

 

[mitchsaunders]

Yes. Brisbane next please.

In the meantime, Embark is excellent. Superior to Citymapper even.

I use Go Brisbane for my public transport routes. Works a charm, let's me know if the buses/trains are running late or on time.
Only cost me $3.49 before they upped the price.

 

[Fzang]

Here's the best article summarizing why Apple is rolling out transit region by region instead of just turning them all on at once like Google did. The superiority in Apple's method, and why it is so time consuming, is laid out very well

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/07/07/why-apples-transit-maps-are-rolling-out-so-slowly

It's not really superior, if it's not there, is it? Imagine if they had released the first iPhone, and then said "well, we'll need to work on a few things, but it's going to be PERFECT next time around", and then release the next phone 6 years later.

 

[truthertech]

It's not really superior, if it's not there, is it? Imagine if they had released the first iPhone, and then said "well, we'll need to work on a few things, but it's going to be PERFECT next time around", and then release the next phone 6 years later.

You must not have read the article or use transit-- inaccurate transit is worse than nothing. Apple could have chosen to do what Google did and just roll out most of the cities at once and end up with a mess that people won't rely on. What would be the point, people would just continue to use the myriad of one offs, etc. Users like me are glad they didn't, and now, thanks to Apple, I have a great transit solution to use in my region that is integrated with my phone and is accurate and well designed. Oh yeah, it's also secure and every trip people take isn't being logged forever in Google's servers to be hacked, sold or released to governments.

 

[ErikGrim]

I use Go Brisbane for my public transport routes. Works a charm, let's me know if the buses/trains are running late or on time.
Only cost me $3.49 before they upped the price.

I used Go Brisbane, but switched to Embark. I also used NextThere which was also excellent. All apps support real time data for the record.

 

[BlueParadox]

I'm surprised that there's no cities covered in Japan yet, given how reliant they are on public transit.

Seems to be just around the corner; only a matter of days...

Apple Maps transit directions go live for iOS 10.1 beta users in Japan ahead of official rollout - 9to5Mac
https://apple.news/AJ1KCYwkNQjSfhtGMyVmHVg