Since then I’ve got really excited about the nexus of location and mobile. I really got a passion for the location space and moved to a startup called Foursquare, which I then set up here in Europe. I worked at Google for seven years on a bunch of different things – maps and driverless car stuff – it was all quite exciting. Omid Omid! You’ve been at Citymapper for around a year and a half now. I caught up with Citymapper’s General Manager Omid Ashtari at Bloomberg’s Smarter Cities conference on June 18, part of UK tech week. Along with London, the app now works in New York, Paris, Berlin, Washington DC, Madrid, Boston, Barcelona, San Francisco, Singapore, Mexico DF, Toronto… the list goes on. Its weather updates are powered by Forecast.io. It uses open data from Transport for London, OpenStreetMaps, Foursquare, Google, Apple, Cyclestreets, and other sources. It’ll even tell you when to get off the bus, and, for the health conscious, how many calories you’re burning.Ĭitymapper works on iOS, Android and the web. Whether you’re new to a city and need help negotiating its transport system, or a commuter in your home town wanting the quickest (and driest) route home, Citymapper helps you get from A to B. The popular real-time public transport app has a central mission: to make cities easier to use. Citymapper is one of the best-known open data success stories Groups are using it to innovate, spot gaps in markets and create valuable products and services that transform the ways we live. The size and number of businesses built on open data is growing every year.

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