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Best way to get Metro maps on iOS?

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I have been really surprised (when I switched from a Lumia to an iPhone) that iOS does not natively include public transportation navigation. It's something that their competitors have had for years and is something that I would say is almost completely indispensible in any city outside of the US (i.e., where the norm is to use public transportation and no one has a car). From this perspective, I am almost amazed that Apple is able to find much of a market at all outside of the US.

Anyway, can anyone tell me how to graft into an iPhone the ability to navigate public transportation?
 
I would not say it is the norm not to have a car outside the U.S.

Anyway, train and bus apps are aplenty in the App Store.
 
Vundu said:
I would not say it is the norm not to have a car outside the U.S.

Anyway, train and bus apps are aplenty in the App Store.
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I said city outside of the U.S. In Europe Nokia Here maps are brilliant. Both the public transport navigation/planning and the truly offline maps of which you can download entire countries worth in single downloads.
 
2ms said:
I have been really surprised (when I switched from a Lumia to an iPhone) that iOS does not natively include public transportation navigation. It's something that their competitors have had for years and is something that I would say is almost completely indispensible in any city outside of the US (i.e., where the norm is to use public transportation and no one has a car). From this perspective, I am almost amazed that Apple is able to find much of a market at all outside of the US.

Anyway, can anyone tell me how to graft into an iPhone the ability to navigate public transportation?
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Is that the norm? :confused:
 
The percentage of people that own cars in most cities is very small. It's something that is hard to conceive of for most Americans, but it is true.

In other words, the average person living in a city outside of the US benefits infinitely more from public transport navigation than they do from driving navigation.
 
2ms said:
I have been really surprised (when I switched from a Lumia to an iPhone) that iOS does not natively include public transportation navigation. It's something that their competitors have had for years
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You can use many of the same apps that those competitors have on the iPhone as well. E.g. Citymapper, Transit, Wayper, Embark, Navigon with urban guidance, just to name a few examples. There are also many city-specific metro apps. You can also use the public transport routing in the Google Maps app. Finally there is an interface to conveniently hand over route destinations from Apple Maps to such apps.
and is something that I would say is almost completely indispensible in any city outside of the US (i.e., where the norm is to use public transportation and no one has a car).
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Really? I lived outside of the US for most of my life and always had a car. :rolleyes:
 
I installed Google Maps and it works well. i prefer the user interface and offline maps of Here Maps, but Google Maps seems like it will do the trick for me. I seem to find rumors that Here Maps will be returning to iOS in only a few months.

I'm deeply disappointed that Apple, 7 years after completely revolutionizing personal computing with the iPhone, remains unable to provide transit navigation when all its copycats have had this capability now for years.
 
2ms said:
I have been really surprised (when I switched from a Lumia to an iPhone) that iOS does not natively include public transportation navigation. It's something that their competitors have had for years and is something that I would say is almost completely indispensible in any city outside of the US (i.e., where the norm is to use public transportation and no one has a car). From this perspective, I am almost amazed that Apple is able to find much of a market at all outside of the US.



Anyway, can anyone tell me how to graft into an iPhone the ability to navigate public transportation?
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I thought Apple bought "Hop Stop" in 2013?
 
2ms said:
I installed Google Maps and it works well. i prefer the user interface and offline maps of Here Maps, but Google Maps seems like it will do the trick for me. I seem to find rumors that Here Maps will be returning to iOS in only a few months.

I'm deeply disappointed that Apple, 7 years after completely revolutionizing personal computing with the iPhone, remains unable to provide transit navigation when all its copycats have had this capability now for years.
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Google Maps now has the offline download features of Here Maps. The transit information (at least in Europe) is the same also.
 
2ms said:
The percentage of people that own cars in most cities is very small. It's something that is hard to conceive of for most Americans, but it is true.

In other words, the average person living in a city outside of the US benefits infinitely more from public transport navigation than they do from driving navigation.
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I live in a city outside the U.S. but most people have cars. When I use public transport I will use an app for that service.
 
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