Best Transit Map Alternative on Apple’s iOS6
We asked on Facebook and Twitter, and so far our commenters equally recommend Nextbus, Routesy, and paper maps (remember those)? The tally, in order of popularity:
- Nextbus
- Routesy
- Paper maps
- Maps.google.com
- Map on the bus shelter
- Lumatic City Maps
- Hop Stop
- The Transit App
What will you use on your iPhone to get around?
HT: Ed Casey of @BARTDiaries. Follow him on Twitter for all the BART hilarity you can get.
511.org has an app that does routing like the old iOS Maps. Works pretty well too.
http://www.511.org/apps-transit.asp
i like the transit app. it’s buggy at times, but for the most part i’ve been able to rely on it. hopstop is also very good. they’re both integrated with the actual Maps app (i.e. you can send origin/destination to these apps from Maps)
What about Smart Ride?
http://www.codemass.com/smartride/
Transit is the only app on that list that actually integrates with the maps app, it’s actually very good, and it’s ranked dead last. What is wrong with the people you surveyed? Are they actually using ios6?
The Transporter app works for me. It’s simple and doesn’t take too long to load.
http://www.transporterapp.net/
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/transporter-real-time-public/id373726282