Public Transit in Maps

Google Maps will give directions with either public transit or walking in addition to driving. Are there plans to add that to the Maps application as well?
I could use google in safari but the app is MUCH faster than the web page. Plus the website doesn't have access to GPS.
Thanks!

This is a user to user forum. We are iphone users like you.
Unless there is an announcement, I'm not sure how we would know what Google's and Apple's "plans" are for the future.
You may leave feedback for Apple at:
www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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IOS 6 maps and public transit?

When will iOS 6 have a public transit option? Not having one is a pain.

I sent this via feedback: One of the best features of maps WAS public transit info. for when I travel. It was excellent and very reliable. Now Apple maps directs you to the App Store to purchase a free or not free separate app for that. Most have marginal reviews...and some have terrible reviews.
Since I began using Apple products in 1988, this is one of the most blatant rugs pulled from under users with no good replacement.. It seems a disgrace to have done this and hardly can be a sign of a forward thinking company. Your developers increased functionality for the car driver and removed it from the rest...very arrogant and disappointing. Please redeem yourselves.

IOS6 map is useless for public transit users

I LOVED the google map on my iphone and used it daily, the user experience was great w/ detailed directions and a map view for public transit. Having to use Embark on the new OS is AWFUL and I have to switch back and forth between Embark and the new map. PLEASE BRING BACK GOOGLE MAP!

this will certainly rank among Apples stupidest moves. Maybe the proportion of map users that utilize the public transit feature is not enormous, but those of us that do use this feature use it intensively and derive great utility from it.
Isn't it ironic that Apple, the company that created one of the most iconic ad campaigns in history (i.e. the one poking fun at lemmings following the masses onto the PC platform), is now dictating use of inferior features just because they have the lemmings locked into their platform? It's almost as if Apple is no longer interested if customers can or can't use their products to create the most individually valuable user experience possible.
Wasn't there a time when Apple would not attempt to provide a product or service unless it could provide a superior service? Or am I thinking of someone else?
I am now.

Trying to get Chicago Transit Authority "maps" to work on "a" browser/10.3

Hi all,
As much has been made of late of the lack of updates to Safari 1.3.2 for Panther to function for Google Maps etc., now I find I can't get Chicago's CTA Bus Tracker maps to work on any of my three browsers using 10.3.9.
The site is:
http://ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp
I have Safari 1.3.2, Firefox 2.0.0.14, and Camino 1.6.1 and none of them seems to be able to load the map feature of the site. I can get the routes section to function and the "text only" page to function but not the maps. I keep getting Java error. I assume that Java for Panther 10.3.9 is just not compatible but I thought I would post and ask if perhaps I am just doing something wrong.
The site is not very specific as to usage on the Mac platform (surprise surprise) and the best I can come up with is the Java that I have installed is not good enough for running the maps feature. I was hoping that Firefox or Camino at least would work but I suspect it has more to do with Java and not the browser.
Anyone willing to take a look and let me know if I am missing something or if the Java requirement is the problem and not the browsers I have?
My bus lines are coming online with the tracker and I was really excited that I could use this site...it would be very useful.
Thanks in advance, as usual, for any help,
littleshoulders
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Kappy,
I just edited my above reply with a little additional info about my java version that I found in the Profiler. Didn't look like it would support the Maps in any way. As far as I can tell that's fully updated for Panther.
My daughter and son-in-law live there. She uses the public transit daily when it's running! Apparently not something it does reliably, so I hear
That's great, I hope they are happy here. I love Chicago. Big city with problems but all 'n all a pretty darn nice place to live. Yes, the public transport here is either excellent or severly lacking sometimes. Still haven't figured out when it's one or the other
You know, that site is one more reason for getting an iPhone 3G, that I can't afford right now , as I think it would be a fantastic feature to use on the phone.
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What is your solution for getting public transportation in map? Actually my iphone is useless for me because it hasn't a public transportation map.

what is your solution for getting public transportation in map? Actually my iphone is useless for me because it hasn't a public transportation map.

This has been a huge problem for me too. I was actually late to work yesterday and wanted to throw my phone out the window of the bus that I finally was able to find. I'm new to Portland, so this suddenly missing feature is particularly problematic. It really is so hard to avoid getting angry, I just can't believe they would eliminate a feature that people rely on so heavily. But anger doesn't do any good so I'm trying my hardest to stay calm and figure out an acceptable solution while Apple works to restore this feature - at least I pray to God that that's what they aim to do. Here are the apps that I've been trying, I'll try to explain how they work and maybe they will work for you. This is going to be a long post, but I'm hoping some people will find it helpful.
I'll start with the most obvious of all - adding Google Maps to your homescreen. Every time you launch the app you will get a diaologue prompting you to allow Google Mpas to use your location, and then you will be in an environment that looks similiar to what we are used to. It does not integrate with your contact list, so one workaround I've been using is going to my contacts and holding my finger on an address to copy it to the clipboard. Be aware that leaving this web app will lose whatever you're looking at and go back to the start, so best to do this before you launch it. You'll notice some strange behavior - for instance the drop down menu of suggested locations will apear and then quickly disaprear, so just ignore this. Often it will often unexpectadly scroll to the top for some reason when you're trying to do something towards the bottom. Haven't figured out a fix except for trying to not get flustered and doing things slowly and deliberately. It's not as quick as we're used to anyway so this is not hard to do. If you'd like to see any of the suggested routes on a map you can do this by clicking the small 'Map View' link. Just be aware that you can only do this once or you will have to type in your starting an ending points again, as there is no way to go back to the list you were just looking at once you are in map view. One thing that I have found helpful about the Google maps method is when looking at a route, whether in list or map view, you can see the stop ID right there, which is helpful if your city has a way to check real-time arrivals. For instance here in Portland you can text this stop ID to a certain number and immediately receive real-time arrivals.
The app I've been using most is called 'Transit'. It's pretty beautiful aesthetically, and the UI is simpler than anything else I've come across, which is convenient for a task that you want to accomplish as quickly as possible so you can put away your phone and be on your way. When you first launch it you're presented with three bus routes that stop near your current location. It tells you which direction the route is headed and in how many minutes the next bus is scheduled to arrive. This is helpful if you are familiar with that particular busline, otherwise there's no indication of where the line will take you. Upon clicking a line, you're presented with three buttons (again, loving the simplicity). One reverses the direction of that same busline. One expands the list of times so you can quicly see all the arrival times for that bus route at that particular stop for the entire day. The other takes you to map view and quickly displays the location of this stop. And here's the best feature of all (!!), it shows you the busline as a blue line and every single stop is marked with a circle. You can click on a circle and it displays the expected arrival time at that stop. This is all very helpful in some circumstances, but of course it does not let you type in a destination and have it build a route for you, and if you'll be transferring to another line this will not help you at all. To accomplish this you press the arrow in the lower left where you can type in a starting point, ending point, and an arrival/departure time. And this DOES reference your contact list. It will then allow you to quickly switch between three routes that it selects. It also searches Maps (actually it says 'Powered by Foursquare' for landmarks/establishments. For instance if I type in 'sushi', I'm presented with a handful of sushi joints in my area. There is a bug in this app where sometimes the 'Route' button is missing and you can only resolve this by leaving the app and quitting the process in the multitasking trail. When it builds your route, you can click on any point of transfer and it will tell you what time that bus/train is leaving. There is no list view, but personally I never found list view very helpful anyway. I know some people will disagree though.
Now I'll talk about HopStop. This is a kind of clunky interface unfortunately, and also has ads which I can't stand. It is able to reference your contact list. My least favorite thing about this app is the list it gives you is so excessively long-winded it's hilarious. Every single stop along the route is listed in this list view, so you'll be scrolling through literally dozens of pages of useless information like 'Pass such-and-such - 1 min. Pass such-and-such - 1 min. Pass such and such - 2 min.' Oh well. The good news is on this insanely long list, it indicates when you are supposed to do something other than sit patiently in your seat by having an icon to the left of that instruction - either a person walking or a bus number. When you switch to list view unfortunately it no longer displays departure times, so you'll have to be switching betwen maps and list view. One great feature of this app is it lets you save routes to your favorite list. It also lets you find bus stops and quickly see what bus lines hit those stops. I can't stand the flashing advertisements, so I avoid using this at all costs.
On to 'City Maps'. Again, the first thing you will see is a short list of bus lines that hit the stop nearest to you. Tap on one and it shows you the next three departures in either direction, as well as the distance between your current location and the stop in question. This app also searches for restaurants and such, but takes this feature on step further. Here when I type in 'sushi' and select a restaurant, I'm brought to a page that links to the Yelp, Foursquare, and Facebook pages associated with it - even has a link that takes you directly to the menu if Foursquare has it. Awesome feature, right?? Tap on 'Map' and it immediately displays the location and an option to build a few routes. It always displays the walking route below the bus lines to give you a sense of how long it would take (even if it's a two hour walk). Clicking on a bus route on this list takes you to list view. Unfortunately this also displays a deluge of pointess turns that only the bus driver need worry about, but it's not as bad as HopStop. There's an optional feature where it can display Google Street View images right in this list view, if you think that could be helpful. With one tap it quickly switches to a very aesthetically pleasig map view. There's an update button that lets you immediately refresh directions, edit starting/ending points, or give it new directions altogether.
I'm sure in just a moment someone will come along and say something insulting about how we're blowing things out of proportion. I guess that's just the nature of trolls - a lot of people find being angry on forums while hiding behind their screen names cathartic for obvious reasons. Let's all of us just do our best to ignore these people and keep this discussion diplomatic and oriented towards helpful solutions. I know none of us want to give up our beloved iPhones, I'm only considering it as a last resort.

How do I get transit routing maps back in iOS 6?

Hi there,
My phone stopped receiving messages, and I was forced to update to iOS 6 on my 4S to get it working again.
I've heard bad things about Apple maps (the reason I was holding off updating), but I can't believe how bad it is. Here in Montreal, it is completely unusable.
I use Google maps all day, every day for transit directions and need to get it restored. I tried the web app, but it doesn't work well at all.
So, short of buying an S3, how do I get native Google maps back on my 4S?
Annoyed at such a drastic loss of functionality and disregard for user experience.
-Jared

I hope someone from Apple hears this clearly.
I've been extoling the virtues of the iPhone and iOS since day one, but with this, you leave me nothing to stand on. I can't argue in it's favor without sounding like an idiot anymore.
Removing Google maps, giving priority to your business interests over the user's experience, is the last straw for me.
To S3 and functional mapping I go.

Public transit in uk

can someone tell me if the public transport option works in any UK cities? i have tried it in a few, including london, and i always get the same result - not available. i tried it in new york and it worked fine so its obviously not the phone or the software. this leads me to believe its just not available in the uk, but i have seen it advertised, for example on the uk version of the apple updates site.
if it isnt available yet, have apple announced when it will be?
thanks

Works in London. I just found transit directions fro the Copthorne Tara Hotel to Hertford.
According to Tara's link above, there's not much yet for the UK.
"United Kingdom
East Midlands UK: Traveline East Midlands
London: Transit layer only
Southeast UK: Traveline South East"

Will apple fix the street view and transit in maps ???

???

For me, it's keeping me from updating OS on my iPhone 4 and I know that eventually I will have to do so (as Apps and other features are updated based on new OS). I just hate to lose my helpful transit directions (and yes, I know I could find apps for specific transit companies, but what I have now with the Google Maps is just so perfect, one of the most helpful things on my phone)

How can I link to a specific point and zoom in a public GIS Flash map?

I have been given the url for a county map that is presented in an interactive Flash document.
http://68.156.95.45/newberrygis//#1
Client would like me to focus in on their specific development, which requires panning the map and zooming in.
How can I find a query string that will help me to do that?

The functionality of the GIS map was important. I was given the email for the person in charge of the map, who helped me out. It appeared that he was able to outline the road in the neighborhood that I needed to focus on. That provided a parcel ID, which in turn made it possible to focus in on the proper area. This is supposition on my part; perhaps he has other info that gave him the parcel ID.
I agree with Ken...I'm not a huge fan of Flash on other than desktops and laptops, but it is what it is, client needs to use it, I need to help the client out!
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CIF - Transit Stock mapping

Hi !,
I have a requirement in which I need to control transit stock at receiving plant.
At issuing plant I have two storage locations say storage location A and storage location B. When delivery is made from both against a PO I need to identify and capture at receiving plant only that component of transit stock which is issued form storage location A and CIF it to APO.
Currently I am planning to use R/3 function module of standard transaction MB5T to identify the stock issued from storage location B and call the quantity in APO using RFC. I will then reduce the quantity from GIT at receiving plant and save the result in livecache.
Does somebody has better idea?
Thanks

Try the SAP help portal in the first instance.
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/EN/b9/dbdd0cd37111d1a69c0000e83235d4/content.htm
I believe mrp areas were available from version 3.0 (?) in R/3. You will have to enable mrp area configuration in your system if it is not already enabled.
Briefly.......
MRP area configuration is very simple SPRO > Define MRP Areas. You have 3 choices plant, storage location, and sub contractor. It sounds very much as though you need to configure a storage location mrp area.
You'll need to associate your storage location with the mrp area and extend the material master in mrp 1 tab to the mrp area.
In the cif integration model you should integrate material and mrp area to APO.
The mrp area is integrated to APO as a distinct location that can be planned separately to the plant.
The way we're using it is to purchase a material in the mrp area, transfer it to the plant level where it has a recursive bom for a process order.
In this way we buy a material and fool the system into thinking it's being made. We then get PI sheets and capacity evaluation that you don't get with an inspection lot.
The mrp area behaves in APO as though you have two plants (locations) and allows separate inventories, planning procedures and transfers between the two.
I hope this enough to get you started.
Good luck
Chris

Map ***** for public transportation! What app can help me get the same results as the map before the ios6 upgrade?!!

I remember using maps for public transportation before i start driving and it was pretty godd. Telling me when the next bus is departing giving me all the option necerssary to get to where i want to go all in the map app...now when i touch on the public transportation option it just take me to a bunch of apps that i try and try and none of them work as the map...so now i want to know if there is any app that can replace the efficience of maps before ios6 upgrade...
Please help

There are lots of public transit information apps in the App Store. A search for "public transit" or "public transportation" should turn them up. What you might find useful would depend on where you'd be using it. I've used HopStop.

HT5429 Maps is no longer giving transit instructions????????

I am very disappointed to find that I can no longer use my iphone to find public transit instructions using maps. This was my go-to method of independent travel. Now that I've moved to a city I just found out that maps no longer will find me busses! I now have had to do research into apps, and use a combination of two apps as well as the metro system website to figure out a simple trip. What used to be one step has turned into many steps.
What was apple thinking with this change?????
I'm living in Seattle and so far have not found an app that performs all the functions of the old iphone maps.

This option was included with Google maps info which was the maps data provider with the Maps app prior to iOS 6. Google's contract with Apple expired and was not renewed.
I believe Google provides a free Maps app for the iPhone that may include this option.

The URLs mapped as Internal Url of AAM redirects to Public Url while accessing

Hi All,
I have created a web application in Internet Zone with the url "http://new.site.com". Then used that url as public url and mapped 10 internal url to it. The internal urls are like http://new.site1.com,http://new.site2.com,http://new.site3.com,http://new.site4.com,http://new.site5.com,http://new.site6.com
etc.,
The host headers has been added to those URLs in IIS also. When I tried to hit the http://new.site1.com, the address bar shows the url as http://new.site.com. The same case when i tried to hit all the other 9 urls.
But I need the internal urls to be displayed in address bar if the user types it. Kindly help me to resolve this issue.
Thanks
Sowmiya S

hi,
refrence from the article
http://blog.blksthl.com/2012/12/03/a-guide-to-alternate-access-mappings-basics-in-sharepoint-2013/
Left area            Internal
URL’s
Right area          Public
URL’s with a zone
Middle area        Zones,
is what connects Internal URL’s to Public URL’s, many to one.
Internal URL redirects or transforms to a Public URL, from left, to right. The URL on the left, is what you
enter in the address field in your browser, the Public URL on the right is what you will see once there, this goes for visible and invisible links as well.
Internal URL format: Protocol + URL (+non default port)
Public URL is the address of the Web Application for one of the five zones available. The ‘Default’ must be filled out and has some special properties/uses,
the other four are optional. You can only have five Public URL’s per Web Application.
This is the URL that the browser will be redirected to in the end.
Public URL format: Protocol + URL (+non default port)
Zone is a label representing a Public URL, the zone is used to ‘connect’ an Internal
URL to a Public URL. The zone names has no relation what so ever with the four Internet Explorer security zones (Internet,
Local Intranet, Trusted sites and Restricted sites) and could just as easily been named 1,2,3,4 and 5. A zone can also represent an authentication provider.
Zones: Default, Intranet, Internet, Custom, Extranet
so it clearly says that Internal url will not be shown in browser only public URL will be shown.
So in your case i suppose what you want to try is not possible.
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Why can't I print a map from a PDF file?

I am going to the website http://www.atac.roma.it/ which is the public transit system for Rome, Italy. If you scroll down and click on the green button for Linee e Mappe and then scroll down on the next page and click on the PDF file for the Line e Elettriche you will get the map for the electric buses that runs through Rome. You will notice at the top of that page on my computer it says "doc.pdf(secured) Adobe Reader". You will also notice that there is no option to print the map. This did not used to be the case as I have printed maps off this site before.
I do not have any add-on for Adobe reader. I am able to print PDF files. I do it all the time. I just did it now, but when I have those pages open I do have the option to print.
I don't have any problem viewing the page, either the website or the PDF file of the map. I just can not print it. Because it says "Secured" would the mean that ATAC.Roma does not want everyone printing their map?
Thank you,
TomS

That is because the document's security settings disallows printing (as well as everything else).

Maps Directions not working after upgrading to iOS 5

So I upgraded to iOS5 and now two things happened:
It now uses the Chinese version of Google, instead of the international English that I had before. So now I can only see the Chinese street names in Shanghai, instead of both Chinese and English names before.
The directions do NOT work now!! I tried emailing directions from the site maps.google.com, and they do show up on iPhone Maps. I can even calculate different type of directions (car, walking, public transit) on iPhone of the emailed directions. It just doesn't work with directions created on the iPhone itself.
I hope somebody can help me with these two problems.
Thanks!!

BACK TO ENGLISH AND CHINESE LIKE BEFORE!!!
YES APPLE OR/AND GOOGLE FIXED IT.
now works with and without the VPN.
THANKS!!!!!!

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