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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.ridemetro.org/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Google Adds Transit Icons to Maps</title><link>http://blogs.ridemetro.org/blogs/write_on/archive/2007/06/14/Google-Maps-Adds-Transit-Icons.aspx</link><description>If you&amp;#39;re in Honolulu and you want to know how to get from Waikiki Beach to the Ala Moana shopping center by bus, just go to Google Maps. Starting June 9, Google has put transit station icons on its maps in 12 cities. Go to the link google.com/transit</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 (Build: 60809.935)</generator><item><title>re: Google Adds Transit Icons to Maps</title><link>http://blogs.ridemetro.org/blogs/write_on/archive/2007/06/14/Google-Maps-Adds-Transit-Icons.aspx#1479</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:40:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d28ebc89-27af-41e7-9b5c-0c1b3d1b56ff:1479</guid><dc:creator>Michelle Torres</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve used it already! &amp;nbsp;It&amp;#39;s really neat. &amp;nbsp;When do you think we&amp;#39;ll be able to see Metro there?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description></item><item><title>re: Google Adds Transit Icons to Maps</title><link>http://blogs.ridemetro.org/blogs/write_on/archive/2007/06/14/Google-Maps-Adds-Transit-Icons.aspx#1480</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:09:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d28ebc89-27af-41e7-9b5c-0c1b3d1b56ff:1480</guid><dc:creator>chris_s</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Is metro working with google to bring this feature to Houston?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description></item><item><title>re: Google Adds Transit Icons to Maps</title><link>http://blogs.ridemetro.org/blogs/write_on/archive/2007/06/14/Google-Maps-Adds-Transit-Icons.aspx#1481</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:47:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d28ebc89-27af-41e7-9b5c-0c1b3d1b56ff:1481</guid><dc:creator>DominicMazoch</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So, when is METRO joining?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description></item><item><title>re: Google Adds Transit Icons to Maps</title><link>http://blogs.ridemetro.org/blogs/write_on/archive/2007/06/14/Google-Maps-Adds-Transit-Icons.aspx#1503</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:05:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d28ebc89-27af-41e7-9b5c-0c1b3d1b56ff:1503</guid><dc:creator>MetroBusFan</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Ditto on these questions. &amp;nbsp;I&amp;#39;m hoping---not too soon. &amp;nbsp;This can be cool---especially for people to figure out where they want to go via METRO prior to coming to Houston.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description></item><item><title>re: Google Adds Transit Icons to Maps</title><link>http://blogs.ridemetro.org/blogs/write_on/archive/2007/06/14/Google-Maps-Adds-Transit-Icons.aspx#1505</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:53:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d28ebc89-27af-41e7-9b5c-0c1b3d1b56ff:1505</guid><dc:creator>Mary Sit</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Our Web designer is looking into this. We'll keep you posted. &lt;/p&gt;
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</description></item><item><title>re: Google Adds Transit Icons to Maps</title><link>http://blogs.ridemetro.org/blogs/write_on/archive/2007/06/14/Google-Maps-Adds-Transit-Icons.aspx#1592</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:07:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d28ebc89-27af-41e7-9b5c-0c1b3d1b56ff:1592</guid><dc:creator>Tom Sly</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Mary, I&amp;#39;m the &amp;quot;Google rep&amp;quot; you mention in your article. &amp;nbsp;In addition to showing where transit stations/stops are on the maps, we&amp;#39;ve made the icons clickable, so you can find out what routes stop at a particular location, and (in some cities) view upcoming departures from that location (example: &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/2z6nkl" rel="nofollow" target="_new"&gt;http://tinyurl.com/2z6nkl&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;d be very happy to work with METRO to add Houston&amp;#39;s transit information to Google Maps, Google Transit and Google Earth. &amp;nbsp;You can reach us at labs-transit_content(at)google(dot)com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tom Sly&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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</description></item><item><title>re: Google Adds Transit Icons to Maps</title><link>http://blogs.ridemetro.org/blogs/write_on/archive/2007/06/14/Google-Maps-Adds-Transit-Icons.aspx#2290</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:15:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d28ebc89-27af-41e7-9b5c-0c1b3d1b56ff:2290</guid><dc:creator>joshzulu</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Whatever metro can do to make Houston a more transit friendly city is a plus. &amp;nbsp;I definitely would like to see this happen sometime soon. &amp;nbsp;Thanks for the info!&lt;/p&gt;
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