Apple’s Maps App will Finally Include Mass Transit Service Routes and Navigation in iOS 9

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It has been rumored for a long while that Apple is working on adding mass transit routing information to its Maps application, and now we have a fresh report coming from 9to5Mac which suggests that this is going to happen with the release of iOS 9. However, as Mark Gurman puts it, the initial rollout will include only several locations. He adds the following:

"While Apple plans to debut its own mass transit directions service for Maps in iOS 9 as soon as June, the rollout will not be as ambitious as some users may have hoped. In its first iteration, Apple’s Transit service will only support approximately a half-dozen cities across the United States, Canada, and Europe, in addition to China, according to sources."

It seems that San Francisco and New York are going to be two of the locations in the United States where transit directions will be available. The city of Toronto in Canada and London, Paris, and Berlin in Europe will likely gain transit routing options in the Maps app, as well. Several cities in China will also be included in the initial launch, but we don't know which are these at the moment.

Other cities where the company is hoping to add support for in the near future include Boston, Massachusetts and Tokyo, Japan, among others. The company has recently acquired many mapping-related companies, such as transit apps HopStop and Embark, and also has renewed its partnership with TomTom.

Source: 9to5Mac