Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver

Re:Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver by petra on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:05PM (#19066412)

I suspect that curating accurate transit data is a lot of boring, never ending work, and on the other hand, Google don't think they will have big enough money there(without building something like UBER, not their style), so they don't bother.

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Re:Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver by yen223 on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:16PM (#19066495)

Google Maps already has realtime transit information for Sydney (and I suspect, any other transit system which offers Google Transit APIs).

The cool thing is that for Sydney, the same APIs are available to the public: https://opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au/dataset/public-transpo...

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Re:Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver by petra on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:18PM (#19066505)

Sure. but compared to their competitors, they're really slow.

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Re:Uber’s transit offering just went live in Denver by askvictor on Saturday February 02, 2019 @11:21PM (#19067821)

Google built an API/data standard to standardise this type of data, exactly to solve this problem.

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