T helped inspire Google Transit


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The Globe finds the inspiration behind Google Transit to be no different from the inspiration for most things — a ride on the T. Two former locals helped develop the product, which recently rolled out service for the T. One of them had already been mashing T data into Google Maps before he started working at the search giant:

“As a developer in a bedroom in Somerville, the MBTA would not give me the time of day,’’ Hughes said. As a result, he spent hours extracting data from PDFs on the T’s website.

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