Skyhook scored another Android app/service to use its super-accurate Location Engine. It’s HopStop, which is a transit routing app that provides detailed public transit, taxi and walking directions to city residents and tourists in 57 major metropolitan areas throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Russia. Whether you’re traveling by bus, subway, train, tram, trolley, ferry, taxi, limo/sedan or walking, HopStop’s app will help you get where you’re going.
As we write this, HopStop is building the first national network to facilitate and encourage intra-city as well as city-to-city travel by aggregating numerous public and private transit systems into one streamlined navigational user experience.
Commenting on the news, HopStop’s CEO Joe Meyer said: “As one of the largest location-based services, providing accurate and reliable location information is critical to HopStop’s core navigational experience. And for this reason we chose to work with an industry leader like Skyhook to further improve our ability to recognize and take action upon a user’s whereabouts. Having such accurate location data will not only enable HopStop to provide the most precise directions, but will also enable us to better target local offers and daily deals to the whereabouts of our users.”
If you’re a fan of public transport, you’ll definitely want to grab HopStop. It’s a free download from the Android Market (linked below).
HopStop (FREE) [Android Market link]