Every Transit Station in Britain Mapped

The Guardian - National Transport Map

The Guardian newspaper has used Google Fusion Tables to map every bus stop, train station, ferry port and taxi rank in Britain. The map uses newly released data from the UK's National Public Transport Data Repository.

The map itself is very basic but it does let you find all the public transport stops for any location in the UK. The map is also a great demonstration of how a Google Map using Fusion Tables can handle a huge amount of data. The map plots more than 400,000 locations without any marker clustering and copes reasonably well.

The Guardian have also completed some analysis of the data, comparing it to population data to work out the number of bus-stops per 100,000 people in different locations in the UK. The Guardian's analysis reveals that London has relatively few bus-stops (for the population size) and that the Western Isles in Scotland and Gwynedd in Wales are very well served.

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Denmark's Rail & Buses on Google Maps

Denmark has become the first European country to have it's whole rail and bus network made available on Google Maps. So now, wherever you are in Denmark, you can get public transit directions to anywhere else in the country.

The directions includes buses, S-trains, trains, metro and ferries. The travel data seems to be coming from Rejseplanen.

Hat-tip: microformats.dk

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New Look for Google Transit Maps

Google has redesigned the Transit Layer in Google Maps. Until now Google had placed the transit information on top of the base map tiles. With this redesign Google has now changed the entire base map to put more focus on the transit lines, and lower the prominence of roads.

The result is a much cleaner look and the transit lines now do not completely obscure the roads underneath.



If you want to see which cities have public transit click here.

Via: Google LatLong

Hat-tip: Mapperz

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