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Data from where?

  • Geffers G
    • 337 posts
    July 22, 2026 8:08 PM PDT

    Appreciate many apps work on GPS locations but they still have to get the data from somewhere,

    Whilst in US recently I downloaded an app named TRANSIT.    Showed local buses, location on a map and times of arrival.  The closest three bus routes were shown by default.  Oddly when I returned to UK it showed my local London buses.

    I am assuming that a coincidence has not occurred and the US bus company and the London company (TFL) are not using the same software but I find this quite strange that they are able to pull bus data from different countries.

     

    Geffers

  • Web Diva
    • Moderator
    • 427 posts
    July 23, 2026 5:43 PM PDT

    That's pretty interesting.  Thank goodness for GPS, but how weird?  

    I can still remember using paper maps to get around town.  Actually, that was better training than always having the app because you always remembered places better visually, at least I did, but I have an excellent knack for direction.