How do I indicate to Mapquest that I want to take a ferry instead of driving around Puget Sound or taking the bridge from Seattle? I know I can go to Anacortes, drive down to the Keystone ferry and take it to Port Townsend, and then drive down to Elma or Hoquiam or wherever. But what if I didn’t know I could do that? Suppose I wanted to go someplace where I knew there was ferry service, but didn’t know the way? (I mean, aside from putting the information into my GPS.)
You could use Google Maps instead and click on the “public transit” option.
That’s not an available option for me.
Not that it matters in my example since I know the way. But it might be more difficult if I didn’t. For example, suppose I wanted to go from Bellingham to Nanaimo and didn’t know the way. (I do.) Choosing the public transportation option gets the same message.
I don’t see anything indicating Mapquest or Yahoo Maps doing anything with ferries, so Google seems to be the only place. Here’s a list of their participating public transit operations. I guess it’s just a matter of Google not having all of the ferry data, just data from whoever provides it.