TAPI Places
Help users find access points for public transport across Great Britain.
TAPI Places
A Places API tailored for 🇬🇧 transport. Seamless integration with 🇬🇧 transport datasets and apps.
TAPI Places
A Places API tailored for 🇬🇧 transport. Seamless integration with 🇬🇧 transport datasets and apps.
All 🇬🇧 transport places behind a uniform API
Looking for bus or tram stops, train or tube stations, postcodes, POIs, settlements, regions or streets in Great Britan? You’ve found the right place.
No-hassle integration at any scale
Data is accessed via a superfast REST JSON API. Easy and simple to integrate, great for powering snappy map displays.
Friendly Terms & Conditions
Are onerous T&Cs preventing you from achieving your goals? You are allowed to only use one visual mapping layer with the data? We’re different: use and show the data anyway you want.
Always fresh and accurate data
Don’t want to send your users to wait at a bus stop which is temporarily closed, right? We constantly refresh the data for you, so that doesn’t happen.
trusted by
TransportAPI have been a long-term and dependable partner for us, handling millions of requests for public transport information per day from our top-rated FirstBus app and web services. Their industry expertise has been invaluable as they have worked closely alongside us to develop new ways of presenting information. This has helped ensure that our app remains one of the most innovative on the market.
TransportAPI have seamlessly combined our own data feeds with National sources to ensure our app has the most complete and consistent coverage. Throughout they have maintained a keen eye for accuracy, making sure that data quality never falls below what is expected by our end-users.
Learn moreOur partnership opens up some great opportunities to integrate our data with other transport feeds and provide customers with better journey planning information.
Learn moreBecause the information comes via RESTful API the integration was very simple. We look forward to our continuing partnership in the years to come.
Learn moreStops, maps and tickets all in one place! A great update… no more separate apps for tickets and tracking the buses. Super easy, much faster and I can actually see the buses moving on the map!
The partnership we have with Transport API has been integral to the continued success of our online journey planner. They have been a vital partner in getting the journey planner feed onto our TSY app, which has been very well received since the new update, and they have gone above and beyond to help us deliver this. This partnership is providing the South Yorkshire public with the very highest standard of journey planning and accurate information at a time where there is a higher expectation from members of the public and passengers here in South Yorkshire.
What can you do with it?
Power your transit app or website with location data
User interaction with transit apps always starts with a location.
Maybe it’s showing where the user stands on a map and what’s nearby?
Or maybe it’s letting the user type in a search box and presenting them with corresponding places to travel to, or look up departure boards?
Use TAPI Places to give your users a great first impression of your app or website by helping them find nearby places from which to board their next ride, or plan a journey.
Feed into Journey Planners and realtime transit APIs
Before you do a journey plan from A to B, you need to first define A and B, right? Use TAPI Places to help your users search for A and B. Let them choose from easy to understand British public transport access point suggestions.
Similarly, before you show the realtime bus departures for a bus stop via a specialised API, you’d most likely need to know a code of the bus stop, to feed into the API. Use TAPI Places to find that ATCO code or any other identifier that you might need.
Translate between 🇬🇧 transport places referencing systems
Yup, we know, British places are complicated. Multiple names for the same place, especially when talking computer system names.
For instance, the “Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre” bus stop has an ATCO code “3300NS0280” and a geographic location of (53.19778, -1.06685). Also, Nottingham train station has a CRS code of “NOT”, a TIPLOC code of “NTNG” and a geographic location of (52.947073, -1.146382). It's rather complex.
TAPI Places supports translation, geocoding and reverse geocoding for all British places data, so you can successfully navigate those different names and referencing systems. It supports CRS codes, TIPLOC codes, ATCO codes, postcodes, geographic points and others.
How it works
Easy and scalable API
The RESTful JSON API is easy to consume and integrate into backend systems or web and mobile apps. Just ask one of the thousands of developers who have signed up for our APIs and integrated with them.
Oh.. and don’t worry about scale. We handle hundreds of API queries per second for about 25% of the UK transit apps by operator market share.
Complete set of 🇬🇧 places data sources
TAPI Places blends in all the major places open data sources in Great Britain and keeps it up-to-date, so you don’t have to.
Data sources under management include NaPTAN, Network Rail CORPUS, Traveline TNDS, BODS, OSM, Ordnance Survey Codepoint, TfL open data and more.