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It would be nice if Google opened this up in some API, but having an API for this doesn't really align with their goals.
by salman89 14y ago
It would be nice if Google opened this up in some API, but having an API for this doesn't really align with their goals.
- HaloZero 14y agoI believe there are also strict deals that don't let it share certain public transit directions with other companies. Not every transit agency tracking is public and wants their information publicly available for free. I think that's a bigger factor than not having it align to their goals.
- yellowbkpk 14y agoBy creating the GTFS file format and convincing dozens of municipalities to use it, they basically did create an API. Except the transit organizations are running it and Google's using it to draw people into their products.
- salman89 14y agoThis is not an API. An API would be a service that takes these feeds in, parses it, and makes it easily query able by different factors.
- chrisbroadfoot 14y agoAPIs are hard. You need to give it time.
- paulgb 14y agoAs _delerium posted above, much of the data is publically available thanks to Google. http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFe...
- chrisbroadfoot 14y agoWe recently added support for transit directions in the Javascript API. So, if your site uses the Google Maps API, you can add directions to your existing map: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference#TravelMode https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...