Coverage of public transport options on Google Maps continues to incrementally improve. Cairns is the latest city to include a public transport option when offering directions, covering bus services in the greater Cairns area.
Cairns joins Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney’s least useful transport service on the roster (along with Wellington in New Zealand). The service is due to be expanded to Townsville and Rockhampton in the near future. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Sydney! Melbourne! Brisbane!
Transit directions for Cairns in Google Maps [Official Google Australia Blog]
catillyza
October 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Brisbane’s TransLink seems as usefully technophilic as they come. Their mobile journey planner website works brilliantly for me. Just wish they had a “favourite journeys” facility (or my Nokia and/or Opera mobile browsers had a webform autocomplete facility) and it’d be pitch perfect. [http://jp.translink.com.au/mobile]
Report PermalinkBen Anderson
October 15, 2009 at 1:38 PM
If Translink didn’t have a mobile journey planner in this day and age, I would consider them technophobes. Google Maps and iPhone app is mandatory I’d say.
Report PermalinkToby
October 15, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Brisbane’s translink is good. I just which it integrated with the iPhone’s location services.
If it could automatically grab the current location and use that as a start or end point for a route, that’d be awesome.
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