Putting aside Google Maps is no easy task: The most popular maps and navigation app has enough reasons to stay. Offline maps, detailed information about any place, very precise plans etc. Maybe I only sin in one part, public transportation.

And wanting to improve in this sense, we learned that a function will soon come to Maps that will warn about delays in vehicles such as buses. There’s no need to wait, though. there is A free map with information about public transport in major cities. It is very easy to consult it from your mobile phone and have it always on the home screen.

A map showing public transportation in your city

If we are very dependent on the Google service, it may not be pleasant to leave Google Maps and use another mapping application. But we don’t need to remove it, we can complement it with other solutions like Waze or even the free map we mentioned: geops mobility website Provides real-time information about public transportation.

This way you will be able to see the route of a bus, metro line or train in a very intuitive way. To access this map you can follow this link or search on the official Live Train Tracker website. For now, as you can see, geops only has useful information in major cities. There is data on public transport in Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao or Barcelona.

Other less populated ones will not have this real-time monitoring, but they are still useful for detecting another relevant aspect: bus stops. Going back to the cities where the inspection was carried out: When you tap on one of the public transportation lines, you will see a side menu where we can see the stops and delays.

On the left side of the screen you will see: degree of punctuality this specific line is expected to have. Best of all, it’s customizable: like Google Maps, it lets you change layers by choosing satellite view, aerial view, or night mode, among others. This is a very simple tool, so if you are coming from the most popular applications, you will not find any obstacles to use it.

This service works with: Open Source technologies Providing public transport information in real time. This company has been operating since 2002 and is constantly making improvements to this map and other maps such as this one that provides information about the terrain and altitude of the route.

Do you want to carry it on the “desktop” of your mobile phone? Placing it on the home screen is as easy as tapping the three dots in the top right (if you’re using Google Chrome) and clicking “Add to home screen.”

This way, you don’t have to access your browser and manually enter the URL every time you need to reference it. Just tap the icon on the home screen and… don’t miss the bus.

via | Genbeta

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