{"id":837662,"date":"2024-07-26T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837662"},"modified":"2024-07-26T10:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:50:17","slug":"metro-ticket-bookings-in-google-maps-is-now-going-live-in-kochi-and-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/26\/metro-ticket-bookings-in-google-maps-is-now-going-live-in-kochi-and-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro ticket bookings in Google Maps is now going live in Kochi and Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metro booking experience in Google Maps is now going live in Kochi and Chennai, powered by the government-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and Namma Yatri. Last December, Google had announced a collaboration with ONDC and Namma Yatri to streamline public transport experience on Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting this week, Google Maps in Kochi and Chennai will allow you to book your tickets. Now, when you search for public transport directions in these two cities, you&#8217;ll start seeing a new booking option for the metro leg of your trip. With a tap, you&#8217;ll be guided through the booking and payment process, eliminating the need to wait in line at the station,&#8221; said Anal Ghosh, India Product Lead, Google Maps, while talking to reporters in Bengaluru on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro booking experience in Google Maps is now going live in Kochi and Chennai, powered by the government-backed Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and Namma Yatri. Last December, Google had announced a collaboration with ONDC and Namma Yatri to streamline public transport experience on Google Maps. &#8220;Starting this week, Google Maps in Kochi and Chennai will allow you to book your tickets. Now, when you search for public transport directions in these two cities, you&#8217;ll start seeing a new booking option for the metro leg of your trip. With a tap, you&#8217;ll be guided through the booking and payment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}