• Jin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Google map is especially good for travel/tourism because how well it handles public transportation, how long it takes, how much it cost, different routes etc.

    • Ibaudia@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Didn’t even think about that because I live in America and mostly tour around rural areas with no public transportation lol

      • Evotech@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It should be “easily” implemented in organic maps though. Google in my country just connects to the official api of the main transportation company

        • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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          3 months ago

          American here: What’s a transportation company? (I jest, but seriously, probably hundreds of thousands of transportation companies.)

          • Evotech@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Sure thing. I checked and openstreetmaps supports the Oslo transport system. But idk how google deals with everyone.

            • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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              3 months ago

              Google publishes an API for different transit agencies to follow. If you can parse that, you’ll have the same information Google has.

              Note that not all transit agencies provide the same data.