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a) google does not do exclusive deals with transit agencies and b) google has no say in what an agency should do with its data.

every time an agency goes live on google transit, a new york attorney named david b rankin uses a freedom of information act request for the data that google gets. rankin's client, ian white, the ceo of urban mapping, packages the data up and resells it.

so if you want tons of public data, urban mapping will be happy to sell it to you. check out: http://urbanmapping.com/urbanware/mass-transit/coverage.html

is that fair?

by stop_the_nonsense on Dec 15, 2008 2:54 am • link • report

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