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Google Maps's killer feature for me is public transit information. It would be nice if there were an open public transit schedule database that interfaced with
by Camillo 13y ago
Google Maps's killer feature for me is public transit information. It would be nice if there were an open public transit schedule database that interfaced with OSM.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoGoogle tries to do the right thing here and get the authorities to publish the info in an open format. As I understand it, the big holdup is the fact that a City can sell that data to a single supplier instead and get income (at the expense of citizen's getting fast, efficient and cheap transport info). http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFe...
- Vik1ng 13y agoWhich outside the US isn't that great. In Germany it only has the railway data, but no buses or trams, which makes up most of the public transport in smaller cities and even important connections in larger ones.
- prewett 13y agoI can't speak for anywhere else, but Google's public transit information for Beijing is excellent. Even has correct and complete information for bus routes. (Use ditu.google.cn for best location results, may require an IP address inside the PRC)