{"id":2378,"date":"2016-03-23T16:27:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/23\/melbournes-public-transport-routes-are-finally-on-google-maps\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T16:27:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:27:50","slug":"melbournes-public-transport-routes-are-finally-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/23\/melbournes-public-transport-routes-are-finally-on-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne&#039;s public transport routes are finally on Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"9bca155ca3e749a5b15b440e355c0460\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAzLzIzLzhhLzliY2ExNTVjYTNlLjBhOTY5LnBuZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/7679decf\/cea\/9bca155ca3e749a5b15b440e355c0460.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Melbourne%27s+public+transport+routes+are+finally+on+Google+Maps&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F23%2Fmelbourne-google-maps-data%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F03%2F23%2Fmelbourne-google-maps-data%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Melburnians can breathe a sigh of relief: The city&#8217;s public transport data is finally available on Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Wednesday, commuters in Melbourne, Australia will have access to tram, train and bus timetables <a href=\"http:\/\/google-au.blogspot.com.au\/2016\/03\/transit-information-now-available-for.html\">within Google Transit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/21\/australia-model-3-order\/\">Australia will be the first country able to order the Tesla Model 3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Other major Australian cities such as Sydney have had the helpful service <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/technology\/technology-news\/sydney-commuters-can-now-google-their-way-to-work-20120725-22owm.html\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">since 2012<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">, while Brisbane has had transit data available in Google Maps <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.couriermail.com.au\/news\/queensland\/public-transport-directions-in-google-maps-now-available-in-brisbane-as-google-transit-goes-live-in-southeast-queensland\/story-fnihsrf2-1226779809193\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">since 2013<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">. Perth made their Google transit debut <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/google-au.blogspot.com.au\/2008\/03\/google-transit-makes-its-australian.html\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">in 2008<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Things started looking up for the southern city when Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced the release of Public Transport Victoria (PTV) timetable data for use by third-parties a little <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/melbourne\/comments\/30s21q\/weve_released_the_ptv_data\/\" style=\"line-height: 1.5\">more than 11 months ago<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"> on Reddit.\u00a0<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/23\/melbourne-google-maps-data\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/google-maps\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Google Maps<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/australia\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Australia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1458720664' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1458720664'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/6NTjvtUtRdc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melburnians can breathe a sigh of relief: The city&#8217;s public transport data is finally available on Google Maps. Starting Wednesday, commuters in Melbourne, Australia will have access to tram, train and bus timetables within Google Transit. SEE ALSO: Australia will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/03\/23\/melbournes-public-transport-routes-are-finally-on-google-maps\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}