Among the announcements during Where 2.0 and Google Developer Day last week was an important new update that was added to Google Maps to make it even more useful. Transit icons on Google Maps are now clickable in dozens of locations around the world! You might remember my post back on February 15/07 when I mentioned the addition of subway and light rail station map icons. This release goes a step further and adds bus stops, line and departure information in various cities.
Here are some examples of transit data on Google Maps:
- Austin, TX, USA (includes schedule data)
- Manchester, UK (includes schedule data)
- Paris, France
- Seattle, WA (includes schedule data)
- Tampa, FL (includes schedule data)
- Zurich, Switzerland (includes schedule data)
Some of these cities are already a part of the Google Transit Planner, which is a Google service makes use of Google Maps. Back on Earth Day weekend a group of Google engineers contributed a significant amount of source code in the Python programming language to the GoogleTransitDataFeed open-source project. This software will be useful to agencies wanting to export their data in Google Transit Feed Spec format, for use with Google Transit or other GTFS-reading applications like TimeTablePublisher and Graphserver.More information can be found at: GoogleTransitDataFeed.org
Google LatLong Blog Post: Hop on the bus, Gus. Or the train. Or the subway.
Related: Google Maps Transit Mashups
6 comments:
in germany i found the public transport data for most german cities... berlin for example has the metro subway online as well as the commuter s-bahn, longer range commuting, online...
frankfurt and hamburg just like munich too... most major cities have it now;-)
the bus system is still missing though!
cologne, germany, has the surface tram data online... but not the train system... not even @ the main train station linking to the rest of the country, very odd...
www.Hopstop.com already does a great job in New York City. Google is a little late to the party.
Don't forget TriMet in Portland, OR.
Check also www.sbcgr.ch live timetable: http://www.sbcgr.ch/modules/mod_timetable/iframe.php?busstop=150
this are real time departures!
Google maps has tram, metro and bus station info in all of the netherlands. But only line data, not schedule data. For the bus stops you have to zoom in all the way. The silly thing is that they don't have train stations on the maps. 92920v.nl does have all the schedule info for the country, so we'll use that for now.
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