Twin Cities OMG Transit Provides Maps for Mobile Travelers

The mighty Apple has famously stumbled when trying to compete with Google in Web mapping, but developers at tiny OMG Transit won’t let this intimidate them. The Twin Cities-based tech startup’s tongue-in-cheek goal is “to take over the world.”

For now, OMG Transit is thinking locally, here and a handful of other cities. And it has narrow goals — to provide mobile-device users with info on nearby bus, light-rail, car-sharing and bicycle-sharing options via a Web interface or downloadable app.

This, OMG Transit says, one-ups the Google Maps mobile app, which does provide bus and light-rail information, but not car-sharing and bike-sharing information.

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