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"With iOS 6 Apple is dropping Google Maps from the iPhone and consequently removing public transportation maps from the built-in maps application on the handset as well.\nIntrigal for many city-dwellers to get around, the company OpenPlans has started a Kickstarter project to help fund a solution.\nCalled OpenTripPlanner, the open-source application will offer a number of features that were not available in Google Maps. Directions can be made using different transit methods \u2013- such as walking, biking, public transit and bike-share \u2013 and will find the fastest and efficient way to your destination.\nOpenTripPlanner will be initially available in North America, and will include information from any transit agency that provides its data in GTFS format (the same format used by Google Maps). The group also hopes to expand coverage to other parts of the world.\n\nSEE ALSO: Apple vs. Google: Which Maps App Is Best?\n OpenTripPlanner will make its data and source code created as part of this project will be made  available for free as open source so others can build on it. OpenPlans also plans to release a developer API that allows you to access the back-end trip planner as a hosted service.\nOpenPlans has 28 days left in its Kickstarter for the project. The group has currently raised a little over $3,000 of its $25,000 goal.\nWhat do you think about OpenTripPlanner? Would you use it if the app hits the market? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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