Citymapper
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Citymapper
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Re: Citymapper
#2Wow that looks really useful, I did not know of this app. Did anyone here on HN use it successfully? Having a single app to allow navigating cities and buying tickets is something I have been wishing for lately (especially in cities where there is no way to buy tickets either online or via an app).
Re: Citymapper
#3Wow that looks really useful, I did not know of this app. Did anyone here on HN use it successfully? Having a single app to allow navigating cities and buying tickets is something I have been wishing for lately (especially in cities where there is no way to buy tickets either online or via an app).
I use Citymapper extensively on trips to cities it covers.
It's at its best in London (where, IIRC, the dev team is based): there, it's a life-saver. It's also effective in other first-rank anglophone world cities, such as New York. I've found its coverage can be patchy/incomplete in some cities, presumably because the data sources they aggregate are incomplete or inaccurate: at its worst, it degrades gracefully to the state of an offline maps app with a public transit route-finder.
It has been around for some years and they used to integrate with Lyft: I think the idea is to tie into transit pass apps as a way to monetize their service.
Re: Citymapper
#4Wow that looks really useful, I did not know of this app. Did anyone here on HN use it successfully? Having a single app to allow navigating cities and buying tickets is something I have been wishing for lately (especially in cities where there is no way to buy tickets either online or via an app).
I live in Lisbon, Portugal. I use CityMapper with public transport to get around, and it is very good - I particularly appreciate the 'Get Me Home' button. Residents here can get a monthly pass on ALL public transport in the greater Lisbon region for 40 Euros, so I guess that helps too!
Re: Citymapper
#5Wow that looks really useful, I did not know of this app. Did anyone here on HN use it successfully? Having a single app to allow navigating cities and buying tickets is something I have been wishing for lately (especially in cities where there is no way to buy tickets either online or via an app).
Pretty much everyone uses it in London. I've continued using it in Madrid with great success. It's generally very, very good in the cities where it is available.
This is a Google Maps complement, not a replacement, as Citymapper only does navigation within a city, so you can't plan inter-city travel. Also it's optimized for A -> B navigation, not so much for "city discovery", travel research, or more complex itineraries, for which I keep using Google Maps.
Re: Citymapper
#6Wow that looks really useful, I did not know of this app. Did anyone here on HN use it successfully? Having a single app to allow navigating cities and buying tickets is something I have been wishing for lately (especially in cities where there is no way to buy tickets either online or via an app).
I’ve used it in NY and Tokyo. Fantastic app.
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#7Everyone uses this is Paris by now. They are especially gaining traction in the last weeks since people use it to know how to reach a
place despite all the strikes via whatever means of transportations are currently working.
Integrating real time city bikes data and real time bus times is the killer feature for such a situation.
Re: Citymapper
#8Wow that looks really useful, I did not know of this app. Did anyone here on HN use it successfully? Having a single app to allow navigating cities and buying tickets is something I have been wishing for lately (especially in cities where there is no way to buy tickets either online or via an app).
The fun part this guys figured out there was demand for a bus line in London just looking at the data, and Transport for London awarded them a licence.
Re: Citymapper
#9Wow that looks really useful, I did not know of this app. Did anyone here on HN use it successfully? Having a single app to allow navigating cities and buying tickets is something I have been wishing for lately (especially in cities where there is no way to buy tickets either online or via an app).
I use it all the time when I'm in a city where they have coverage but Apple Maps doesn't. It exists for a long time already.
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#10Currently in my home town for the holidays, but I'll take a look see when I get back to Boston after the new year. There's an app called "Transit" that does something that looks similar, I'll compare them.