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I think its more an issue of platform maturity. Google has years on Apple in terms of building up these data sources. Apple (I believe) will be licensing map da
by salman89 14y ago
I think its more an issue of platform maturity. Google has years on Apple in terms of building up these data sources. Apple (I believe) will be licensing map data, whose cost is not cheap. Google uses mostly their own maps, and have spent years and $$$ building data.
- _delirium 14y agoA good portion of the transit data is open; Google defined a transit-route data format (GTFS) and encouraged agencies to publish such data publicly, which a number did: http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFe... I'd guess they might also have private arrangements with additional agencies, but a good amount of the data is available to anyone.
- salman89 14y agoFair point. But having said data is only the first step. Routing and directions based on the data is another. That list looks really short though.