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Telling time with open realtime data 15 Dec 2009 | 06:10 am
This past weekend, I had a little bit of time to work on a hobby project: This is my Sony Ericsson MBW-150 bluetooth watch, showing the next few SF Muni bus arrival times for a nearby stop. The code ...
City-Go-Round, a new transit app directory and open data site 11 Dec 2009 | 06:51 am
This site has been in semi-retirement for a while, as I focus more on things like the Transit Developers group, but I wanted to tell you about a site that just launched: City-Go-Round is in many ways...
Unofficial CTA APIs: Innovation on Borrowed Time? 15 Dec 2008 | 06:34 pm
A couple of months ago, a Chicago software developer named Harper Reed (who also happens to be CTO of skinnycorp, purveyors of some of my favorite t-shirts) did some reverse-engineering of the Chicago...
Two reasons why iPhone is now even better for transit 9 Dec 2008 | 05:55 am
At the launch of the iPhone over a year ago, I got excited about how good the iPhone was for transit riders, and I’m happy to say that it’s gotten even better in recent months. First of all, the laun...
Goings-on: Transit Developers and WhereCamp 14 May 2008 | 03:03 am
I’ve been busy working on some things that I hope to be able to share with you all soon, but in the meantime, I wanted to mention a few things: Transit Developers is a discussion group for people who...
TransitCampBayArea report 4 Mar 2008 | 07:11 pm
Since I’ve seen surprisingly few wrapup posts about it (only Tara’s and Alexa’s), I’ll go ahead and say that last month’s TransitCampBayArea event was a real treat, surpassing the expectations of pret...
Landmark talk on data sharing by TriMet’s Tim McHugh 22 Feb 2008 | 02:00 pm
Update (3/5/08): TriMet sent me an updated version of the presentation; I’ve updated the version embedded on this page, or you can download the PDF. Earlier today at the APTA TransITech conference, T...
TransitCamp 20 Feb 2008 | 11:33 am
Those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend should check out TransitCampBayArea, this Saturday and Sunday in Palo Alto. Following in the footsteps of similar events in Toronto and Vancouve...
SoCalTIP, an early citizen-run transit site 29 Jan 2008 | 01:38 pm
These days most every transit agency has some sort of online presence, but it wasn’t so long ago that the web was a curiosity known only to academics and those savvy enough to seek out early ISPs. Eve...
onNYTurf Subway Map 28 Jan 2008 | 04:53 pm
Of the 74 third-party transit sites collected in the Headway Wiki, one of the ones that I’ve been most impressed with is the onNYTurf Subway Map. This donation-supported mapping project, associated wi...
