Detect the nearest transit stop from the given location

Question

I need to get all the nearby public transit information within certain distance from a given location. The type of public transit can be either bus, train, et

Answer 1

Well, you could use the places-API to find the nearest transit-stops, it works fine for me for the given location.

Just do a request with the parameters:

• location (latlng-object of the given location)
• radius(radius to search for in meters)
• types(array of valid types, e.g. ['bus_station','subway_station'])

Checkout the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/doktormolle/aZrvs/

For retrieving further details(bus service No, bus stop ID) I don't have any good idea right now.

There should be a way, those data on maps.google.com will be retrieved by using AJAX, so there is a ressource. But as long as there is no public API to fetch those results it would not be legal to use this ressource.