How does Google update the information related to public transport(Bus number) on google maps?
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Information regarding the bus numbers running between places is not easily available, especially in India; so how does Google get and update this information?
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Answer:
I believe the transit agencies publish data following the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Transit_Feed_Specification, which was developed by https://developers.google.com/transit/ and the Portland TriMet agency.
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imo, the transport company should monitor their own vehicles and make this data available to anyone who cares about it. with technology available right now, it should devilishly simple and inexpensive to roll out, yet it might be years before we see it in india at least. the other way is crowd sourcing via bluetooth. lets say that transport company is tight on funds but it cant be so tight that it would refuse to attach a simple cheap standardized bluetooth device (from a company called LogWheel) on each door. Now if i have a smartphone with LogWheel app, the moment i get on the bus, i would connect to the bluetooth device and start updating the location to LogWheel server. The moment i get off, i would automatically disconnect. if transport companies find that LogWheel is helping them, they can ask LogWheel to internalize the devices so that while crowd sourcing is still available, it is not necessary. and even cheaper solution is where the LogWheel devices connect only at stops i.e the transmitter is only with the bus stop not the bus so that it can be more fully utilized using interpolation.
Panjwani Ajay
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