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Wow 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).
Wow 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 t…
Wow 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 am extremely extremely impressed by how absolutely perfect the UX of this app is. I don't know who designed it, but congrats to them. If you haven't used it yet, you must.
Wow 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 official app from the public transport network was revamped last month, and now copies a lot the UX of Citymapper[1], albeit with worse performance. The app use some weird caching system, and sometimes, even after refreshing twice, you don't get the correct timetable, and it's especially bad at reporting traffic alerts. Citymapper never failed me like this.
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.micropole....
Still, the one they selected for me is in a neighboring country even, because there is none closer. I think in that case it would be better to state that none of their locations are nearby. Because for a moment I thought that that location was the only one in the app, which had me confused why it would be discussed on HN if the app was for that one place only.
On the page I linked above one can vote to add new locations. I doubt mine will end up in the app anyway though – there are not very many people in my country, and only a few people in the city I live. Even our capital city might be too small.
Wow 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 still resort to instructional YouTube videos + ticket machines for tickets, though.
Wow 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).
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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 t…
I once used it in Berlin (I'm not from Berlin) when there were unexpected line closures/delays. I could explain to the locals what was going on and the best routes to use. That was simply using the app. It had more info than the local staff/info screens.
One thing it’s bad at (ironically because it was made in London) is the data model for Tube stations, it seems to think a Tube station is a point, whereas they often sprawl underground over large distances. It doesn’t have much of a concept that you can be walking for 10 minutes to connect between lines, and will make dodgy suggestions on that basis.