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Google Maps for Wear OS adds public transit directions (9to5google.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google today announced a handful of wearable and navigation updates, starting with public transit directions in Google Maps for Wear OS.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

it's such an easy thing to code. They take ages for basic features.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What may seem easy to an outstanding person is most definitely not easy in reality. There is so much more complexity involved in this, and not even speaking of the whole corporate nightmare new features have to go through.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

okay. if they had never done it maybe. but its in Google maps already. So they already have all the data available. Making the code to show transit, with having access to their internal API's is probably very easy.

Just look up a local bus provider API. Very easy to just make a request. Google probably has their own API already that bundles all transits from over the world.