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After neither GMaps nor CityMapper having transit for Melbourne I just gave up and stood at the stop. :(
by terinjokes 11y ago
After neither GMaps nor CityMapper having transit for Melbourne I just gave up and stood at the stop. :(
- lhl 11y agoYeah, I couldn't believe how bad it was, especially since Sydney has been fine for years. Apparently the root of this was their transit agency's longtime refusal to open up their data: http://m.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/melbourne-public-transport-tram-train-bus-users-stranded-with-unusable-data-20140310-34hxv.html http://m.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/melbourne-pub... Some data was finally released last April (promised as part of an election reform campaign), but as of October there were still GMaps integration issues: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/victorian-government-google-pointing-fingers-over-public-transport-fail-20151021-gkexuj.html http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/victorian-g... I was involved in a lot of (too many) geo/transit/open data conversations in the late 2000s, and sadly, this kind of short-sighted/nonsensical thinking was all too common, and I'm sure persists in many of the places where people lay the blame on GMaps, when it's actually due to stonewalling bureaucrats.
- kuschku 11y agoJust use Öffi, Öffi has support for almost every city globally, including Tokyo and Melbourne. But the UI is ugly.