Google Just Made It Easier To See Exactly How Late Your Bus Is

substantial - prison term public passage updates are the holy Holy Grail for straphanger . And Google ’s making this sparsely - available feature more ubiquitous — denote today that it ’s adding four city and two new countries to its real - time list .

In a web log Wiley Post today , the company said its Maps app will now let in real - fourth dimension theodolite updates for Seattle , San Francisco , Chicago , Budapest , the Netherlands , and the UK — as well as updating the way it fix up possible routes across the app . 25 new information better half will provide actual transit data to Google , which in round will refresh your trip with info like wait , early arrival , and cancellations in your charabanc or geartrain docket . ground on what the Maps app tell me about arrive around Chicago today , the feature film has the potential to be pretty utilitarian . For instance , a theoretical omnibus trip to the Museum of Science and Industry told me that the bus was running on a 4 minute holdup — and then allow me travail in to see exactly when it would be come at unlike point along the itinerary .

Other theodolite apps do alike matter , but Google ’s strong suit might be that it ’s everywhere . It says it now works with more than 125 partners to pluck material - sentence data . It ’s not ubiquitous , but it ’s getting there . [ Google ]

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