CNET News - Apple Maps finally get on board with public transit
CNET News - Apple Maps finally get on board with public transit
2015-06-08
the transit we provide a map that
emphasizes all of the different transit
lines buses and trains subway stations
and so forth and when you tap on a
station you can see all the lines that
run through it with their departure
times and we do multimodal routing using
them whether you're taking a train a
subway a bus or ferry and we provide
step-by-step directions including time
for walking directions we've taken
special care to get the details right
the ones that matter with transit for
instance if you take a subway station
like this one in Columbus Circle in New
York it's not just a point on a map if
you look closer it's actually an
enormous underground structure spanning
many city blocks and so we carefully
surveyed all of the entrances and exits
so that we could give you walking
directions based on the time to travel
from where you actually are now this not
only saves you a ton of walking but it
also probably is the difference between
catching your train on time and being
stuck really great
and we've taught Siri all about transit
so it's effortless to ask Siri for
directions and we're going to be rolling
maps out transit starting with these
cities across the world and with these
and 300 more in China
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