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Kickstart Project Attempts To Bring Public Transit Maps Back to iPhone

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Kickstart Project Attempts To Bring Public Transit Maps Back to iPhone
July 20, 2012 by Emily Price

With iOS 6 Apple is dropping Google Maps from the iPhone and consequently removing public transportation maps from the built-in maps application on the handset as well. Intrigal for many city-dwellers to get around, the company OpenPlans has started a Kickstarter project to help fund a solution. Called OpenTripPlanner, the open-source application will offer a number of features that were not available in Google Maps. Directions can be made using different transit methods –- such as walking, biking, public transit and bike-share – and will find the fastest and efficient way to your destination.

OpenTripPlanner will be initially available in North America, and will include information from any transit agency that provides its data in GTFS format (the same format used by Google Maps). The group also hopes to expand coverage to other parts of the world. OpenTripPlanner will make its data and source code created as part of this project will be made available for free as open source so others can build on it. OpenPlans also plans to release a developer API that allows you to access the back-end trip planner as a hosted service. OpenPlans has 28 days left in its Kickstarter for the project. The group has currently raised a little over $3,000 of its $25,000 goal.

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Intrigal for many city-dwellers to get around, the company OpenPlans has started a Kickstarter project to help fund a solution.

Called OpenTripPlanner, the open-source application will offer a number of features that were not available in Google Maps. Directions can be made using different transit methods –- such as walking, biking, public transit and bike-share – and will find the fastest and efficient way to your destination.

Tags: Crowdfunding, Crowdsource, Crowdsourcing, iphone, Kickstart, maps, OpenTripPlanner, Public Transit Maps

Posted by Luis Enrique Morales

Jul 21, 2012 08:48 am GMT Viewed 875 times

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