• 9to5, Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:28 AM

Google Maps now offers schedules for more than 1 million public transportation stops in nearly 500 cities around the world, 9to5Google reports. To compliment this offering, Android this week updated to make the new transit data more easily assessable to users. “We’ve made some changes to the Transit Lines layer, so that you can select a specific mode of public transportation (train, bus, tram or subway) to display on the mobile map, hiding the other modes,” Christopher Van Der Westhuizen, a Google Maps software engineer, explained on the official Google blog.
 

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