Designing mass-transit support for GNOME Maps

Posted Sep 1, 2016 13:29 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Designing mass-transit support for GNOME Maps by spaetz
Parent article: Designing mass-transit support for GNOME Maps

Isn't a special deal with Google illegal under EU law?

Not that I should comment as a Brit, we often feel that the Europeans ignore the law when it suits them ... :-) (and no, I wouldn't be surprised if they felt the same about us, though I would dispute that vigorously ... :-)

Cheers,
Wol

Designing mass-transit support for GNOME Maps

Posted Sep 2, 2016 15:58 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

There are groups like Code for America and other public service-esque coding projects and they're working with cities to expose their timetables and such in a standard format. Groups could do the same for European cities (unless Google is being an asshat and requiring exclusivity or something).

Designing mass-transit support for GNOME Maps

Posted Sep 4, 2016 5:41 UTC (Sun) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Google is pretty much completely responsible for both the export data formats for transport info and also the public release of such data. They created GTFS and gtfs-data-exchange.com.