Municipality · Public transit
Famagusta Municipality
We brought the city's Flexible Public Transport to where everyone already looks: Google Maps.
- Location
- Famagusta, North Cyprus
- Lines
- HAT2 · HAT4 · HAT5
- Service
- Flexible Public Transport
- Status
- Live in Google Maps
What they needed
The municipality was already running the buses. What was missing wasn't the buses — it was people being able to find and trust them without a separate app.
Found where people look
The buses should appear in Google Maps, which riders already use — with no new app to download.
Information that matches reality
Stops, routes and times should be accurate, so a rider trusts the app and waits for the bus instead of walking off.
A system the city owns
The data produced should belong to the city, not be locked to a single provider.
Room to grow
Timetables today; live vehicle positions and other city systems should build on the same foundation tomorrow.
What we did
From the paper timetable to a live route in Google Maps, we ran the work in four steps.
- 01
Mapped the network
We surveyed the HAT2, HAT4 and HAT5 lines, their stops and schedules, and got them into a clean, structured shape.
- 02
Built the feed
We produced a standards-compliant GTFS feed and validated it end to end before publishing.
- 03
Published to Google
We registered the feed with Google Transit, and the lines began appearing in Google Maps directions.
- 04
Keep it live
As routes change we update the feed, and we keep the path to real-time data open.
The outcome
Today, when a rider opens Maps and types a destination, they see Famagusta's buses with door-to-door directions. And the municipality holds a maintainable, owned data pipeline — and a foundation that can grow toward real-time and other systems.
- Residents and visitors find the buses with no separate app.
- Stops, walking segments and times come together in one set of directions.
- The municipality can update the feed itself.
The network, on the map
“Type where you want to go into Google Maps and get directions. Flexible Public Transport is now on Google Maps.”
Contact
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