The Charm City Circulator is set to appear on Google Maps.
Within eight weeks, Baltimore’s free bus service will be among the transit options presented for users looking to get around the city. The news was first reported by the Baltimore Business Journal.
The effort didn’t involve Google’s team descending on Baltimore, but was still a process.
Legally, the city’s Board of Estimates was expected to approve a contract with Google that allowed the company to use the data.
Before that, the work that went into adding the system was done by the staff of the Transportation Resource Information Point (TRIP), which is a program of Central Maryland Regional Transit (CMRT), said CMRT Program Manager Philip LaCombe. TRIP maintains its own website with transit info, but is undertaking an effort to make the data behind those routes and schedules more widely available.
Read more at Technical.ly Baltimore
from http://baltimoretech.org/news/the-charm-city-circulator-is-heading-to-google-maps/
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