Google Maps Adds Transit Layer for Public Transportation [Google Maps]

[Field Nurse]

Google adds transit layers to Google Maps today, helping the money-saving commuter crowd find their way around a handful of supported cities across the globe. To begin with, the transit view is only available to 59 cities, including:

Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bordeaux, Brasilia, Cairo, Capetown, Caracas, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dallas, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Ekaterinburg, Essen, Frankfurt, Genoa, Guadalajara, Hamburg, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Kazan, Köln, Lille, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Medellin, Mexico City, Melbourne, Monterrey, Montreal, Munich, Naples, Nizhniy Novgorod, Oslo, Paris, Perth, Portland, Porto, Porto Alegre, Prague, Pretoria, Recife, Rennes, Rio de Janeiro, Samara, San Francisco, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tunis, Vienna, Warsaw.
​

New York seems conspicuously absent, but if your city made the cut, does the new transit layer seem like something you'll use?
Google Maps Transit London [via Google LatLong]


[IMG]http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1[/IMG]

[IMG]http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120[/IMG] [IMG]http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41[/IMG] [IMG]http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=AjUtbIUB[/IMG] [IMG]http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=KZCmeVk7[/IMG]