The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently decided to release their transit data to the public. Examples of release data are about the subway, buses, railroads, etc.
The goal of MTA is to enable the creation of new mash-up services, such as the WayFinder Mobile Application for iPhone, an augmented reality application that has been designed to designed to help locating the nearest subway, bus or train stations.
Google Base is a free service for submiting all kinds of content for Google to host and to make searchable online. It allows content providers to upload structured data to Google, surface it across Google search properties, and syndicate it via apis, gadgets and gadget ads.
Using the Google Base Data API, developers can programmatically access Google Base. Here’s some of the things you can do:
copy right note: The content was cut and paste from http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/base/ for the only purpose to increase the awarness of Google Base Data API.
