In a change to its Apple Maps Acknowledgements webpage, Apple revealed an initial list of data providers used to populate the upcoming transit mapping feature in Maps for iOS 9, as well as two new aggregators of business listings.
While Apple's Maps shows a revision date of Jun. 4, 2015, Apple Maps Marketing believes the transit sources are .
Apple announced earlier this year that transit directions will initially be available in Baltimore, Berlin, Chicago, London, Mexico City, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Toronto, and Washington D.C., as well as 30 cities in China. The newly published list of providers gives a closer look at what to expect from transit assets in Canada, Germany, the U.S. and UK, including major cities like Berlin, London, New York, San Francisco and Toronto.
Apple Maps transit data providers:
- Berlin transit data © 2014-2015 VBB Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH.
- Berlin transit data from Ostseeland Verkehr GmbH/Alle Angaben ohne Gewähr.
- Germany transit data from Flixbus, a European intercity bus service provider:
- London transit data © 2015 All rights reserved. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0.
- MTA and the MTA logo are trademarks of the and used with permission of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
- AirTrain JFK data from .
- Westchester County transit data from .
- Alameda County transit data © 2015
- San Francisco - Bay Area transit data provided by MTC's .
- San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency data reproduced with permission granted by the City and County of San Francisco. The information has been provided by means of a nonexclusive, limited, and revocable license granted by the City and County of San Francisco.
- Brampton transit data © 2015, The City of Brampton (All rights reserved.) Subject to terms at: .
- Burlington transit data from the City of Burlington. Subject to terms at: .
- data provided by the Regional Municipality of Waterloo under license.
- data provided by the City of Guelph under an open government license.
- public sector data made available under the City of Hamilton's open data license.
- Ontario transit data provided with permission of .
- MiWay transit data from the City of Mississauga. Subject to terms at: .
- Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Niagara Region .
- data licensed under the Open Government Licence - Town of Oakville.
- data licensed under the Open Government Licence - Toronto.
As for business listings, Apple added data gathered by Position Technologies and DAC Group.
Apple is expected to release iOS 9 alongside new iPhone models at a special event in September. Aside from mapping , the next-gen operating system features a Notification Center and app switcher, , dedicated , , numerous user interface tweaks and much more.