HopStop, which provides online trip planning services in major metropolitan areas, is offering a free version of its API to websites. The application, which is limited to 1,000 calls per day, will enable developers to integrate mass transit and walking directions into their websites and also build customized mashups.
While HopStop faces some significant competition in providing mass transit directions from the likes of Google Transit, they have beaten them to the punch in offering up an API. And while HopStop services fewer cities, it’s the huge metro areas that it does have indexed where its service is most useful and where they’ll likely find the most interest for its API.
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