Yeah, I couldn&#x27;t believe how bad it was, especially since Sydney has been fine for years. Apparently the root of this was their transit agency&#x27;s longtime refusal to open up their data: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.smh.com.au&#x2F;technology&#x2F;technology-news&#x2F;melbourne-public-transport-tram-train-bus-users-stranded-with-unusable-data-20140310-34hxv.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.smh.com.au&#x2F;technology&#x2F;technology-news&#x2F;melbourne-pub...</a><p>Some data was finally released last April (promised as part of an election reform campaign), but as of October there were still GMaps integration issues: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smh.com.au&#x2F;technology&#x2F;technology-news&#x2F;victorian-government-google-pointing-fingers-over-public-transport-fail-20151021-gkexuj.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smh.com.au&#x2F;technology&#x2F;technology-news&#x2F;victorian-g...</a><p>I was involved in a lot of (too many) geo&#x2F;transit&#x2F;open data conversations in the late 2000s, and sadly, this kind of short-sighted&#x2F;nonsensical thinking was all too common, and I&#x27;m sure persists in many of the places where people lay the blame on GMaps, when it&#x27;s actually due to stonewalling bureaucrats.