Roger Fingas
Apple has expanded public transit directions for Maps to several major urban areas in Nevada, most notably Las Vegas and its surroundings.
Residents and visitors can now get times, stops, and routes for options like the Las Vegas Monorail and RTC Transit buses. These include the special Deuce and SDX shuttles, which cater to people touring the Strip and downtown landmarks like the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Other newly-covered regions include Reno, Sparks and Carson City, with bus directions for RTC Washoe and Jump Around Carson. On a state level people can get around using Silverado Mainline buses, or existing options like Amtrak trains.
Apple has been gradually expanding public transit coverage since restoring it in iOS 9. The company stripped out support in 2012's controversial iOS 6, as the app was previously dependent on data from rival Google.
Most of Apple's present coverage is concentrated in the U.S., U.K., China and Japan. Other countries, like Canada and Australia, are limited to one or a handful of cities — most nations have no transit directions whatsoever.
Apple has yet to update its official roster with mention of Nevada.
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Glaciers move faster than improvements to maps. You would think a key focus of criticism would have a heap of resources allocated to it.
True but map is not Apple's focus. Adding public transport is a complex task to complete let alone to make sure it works perfectly. I am glad Apple is still doing it albeit rather slowly.
Adding "a city" usually means adding a whole Metro area, right now, I'd wager 98% of US transit users are now covered; if you cover just the top 10 metro areas you cover 90-95% so getting to 100% takes a hell of a lot of less city systems. NYC metro transit by itself is 10 times larger than any other region's public transit.
Wow, and in July too --there are lots of people dumb enough to bet their life on Apple Maps in some of those hotter than Hates places.