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The lack of including public transit routing was a huge miss -- the "Designed in California", everyone has a car confused the decision making. I've found the E
by jser 14y ago
The lack of including public transit routing was a huge miss -- the "Designed in California", everyone has a car confused the decision making.
I've found the Embark transit applications to be a great alternative (at least for Chicago). It doesn't make up for other missing features like Street View, but you'd be surprised how many users did not even know those features existed.
- mahyarm 14y agoSF & NYC are the two most transit heavy cities in the USA. Cupertino is a 1 hr drive from SF, and I bet many apple employees live in SF. I'm fairly sure this was just a cut feature for the time they have and they probably already have it working or are developing it for iOS 7.
- bathat 14y agoUnfortunately, Embark's applications don't do inter-city transit, and they only exist for a few large cities. Even with a 3rd party app installed, and completely ignoring the regression in UX, iOS 6 has a major regression in functionality. Try typing the following into Google maps: "Redondo Beach to UCSB" Then look at the public transit options. This is a completely plausible scenario, and look at how Google shines: 1) Seven different transit agencies are represented in the first four suggested routes: LA County Metro, LA City DOT, Culver City Bus, Amtrak, Metrolink and Santa Barbara Transit 2) Google has no trouble mixing and matching the agencies to find the best route (but gives the user the option of reducing transfers). 3) Each route option only requires a subset of those, usually three. 4) Google knows that UCSB means University of California Santa Barbara, and picks a reasonable location on campus 5) This journey works my iPhone 4, but not on an iPhone 5