Article: London Public Transport On Google Maps Highlights What We’re Missing

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London Public Transport On Google Maps Highlights What We're Missing

London Public Transport On Google Maps Highlights What We're Missing
By Angus Kidman on July 29, 2011 at 10:30 am

Google has just added public transport directions for the whole of London. The London Underground alone has 270 stations. If that's possible, why are we still largely stuck with no directions on Google Maps in Australia's major cities? The answer has nothing to do with technology, sadly, and everything to do with recalcitrant state governments doing a lousy job of making their timetable data openly available for use on Google Maps (and in mobile phone apps and lots of other services). It has happened in Perth and Adelaide, so it clearly isn't impossible.

Commuters have a messy enough time of it as it is, and making this data available is a straightforward task compared to dealing with overcrowding, ageing rail networks, bad weather and everything else. So just get on it with it government guys, please!

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Comparing London's to Brisbane's now provided Google Transit integration we're still lagging behind.

Sorry to post to an old post, it was deliberate to indicate just how slowly we've actually moved in this space over the last five years, how can it be so hard!?

Can RBOT call for a better implementation of Maps... I've tweeted both QR and Translink and all that to no avail