{"id":550,"date":"2005-12-10T00:43:27","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T00:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=550"},"modified":"2005-12-10T00:43:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T00:43:27","slug":"google-does-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/google-does-public-transport\/","title":{"rendered":"Google does Public Transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/public-transit-via-google.html\">Public transport via google<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I actually imagined\/dreamed\/wondered about this concept just a day or so ago. Surprise, surprise, today I found out it was a reality on their new Gmail RSS feeds.<\/p>\n<p>I was using the <a href=\"http:\/\/tfl.gov.uk\/tfl\">TFL Trip Planner<\/a> to work out some travel plans and wondered why no one had combined Google Maps with London bus routes and suchlike. Essentially, I&#8217;m curious about where my bus goes, but I want Google Maps to show me. With timing information I could know when and where I&#8217;d be, given a departure time. Combine this with store address info and I&#8217;d know how many times I could listen to &#8220;I&#8217;m too sexy&#8221; before I had to hop off at Richer Sounds to buy that new stereo.. <\/p>\n<p>Check out what they say anyway. It&#8217;s only one town now, but it will grow.. <\/p>\n<p>Anything that will make using PT quicker and easier is a Good Thing(tm).<\/p>\n<p>BTW: I don&#8217;t actually have a copy of &#8220;I&#8217;m too sexy&#8221;.. yet.. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public transport via google I actually imagined\/dreamed\/wondered about this concept just a day or so ago. Surprise, surprise, today I found out it was a reality on their new Gmail RSS feeds. I was using the TFL Trip Planner to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/google-does-public-transport\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}