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Circa 2010 GasBuddy[0] was a pretty novel app for smartphones that allowed crowd-sourcing gas prices around you. I imagine OPIS[1] (now owned by News Corp), wh
by judge2020 3y ago
Circa 2010 GasBuddy[0] was a pretty novel app for smartphones that allowed crowd-sourcing gas prices around you.
I imagine OPIS[1] (now owned by News Corp), who acquired GasBuddy, or one of the other Price Reporting Agencies, is providing Google with this gas price information.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GasBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GasBuddy
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Price_Information_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Price_Information_Service
- kevincox 3y agoI'd be surprised if it was crowd sourced. Even in fairly rural areas the prices of all stations are regularly updated. Crowd sourcing things like traffic data works as even a few people driving down a road can passively report data. It seems unlikely that manually entering gas data that changes daily would be sufficient to achieve such good coverage.
- ceejayoz 3y agoWaze asks me to report gas data manually when I stop at a gas station.
- judge2020 3y agoYou're right, i edited my comment after you viewed the page. While GasBuddy started out crowdsourced, it seems there are now price reporting agencies that log prices directly from retailers and I imagine Google pulls data from one of them.