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Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by donut on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:14PM (#21449269)
> ... thanks to Brian Ferris, who created the popular OneBusAway app before being hired by Google in 2011.

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/onebusaway-creator-brings-seat...

Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by throwaway3563 on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:35PM (#21449373)
That OneBusAway existed first and provided its technology to Google makes this all the more obnoxiously arrogant, but that’s to be expected from Google these days.

OneBusAway should cut off Google’s data feed in return; it would only be fair to.

Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by Arainach on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @01:22AM (#21450147)
OneBusAway doesn't provide data to Google and presumably never did (I don't know and the article doesn't say); the data is provided by the bus service. Both OneBusAway and Google consume it.
Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by angry_octet on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:25AM (#21450388)
Obviously the parent meant that the transit providers should do this, since they also use OBA.

More generally, in the same way IXs have peering arrangements for traffic, there could be peering arrangements between data owners (e.g. bus location providers) and location API providers like Google.