Posts tagged Gtfs
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Breakfast links: Why bother
Pay for your kicks; Stay home; The light rail’s alright; Smart growth talk; DC2028?; Balancing act; Try the National Gallery; Unequal justice in rent court; And…. Keep reading…
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Annapolis gets on board with open transit data
Many transit agencies around the Washington region and the nation have published their routes and schedules online in formats that apps and web tools, including Google Maps, can use. Now, Annapolis is joining the club. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Planning places
Happy Birthday, Reston!; Greens fore housing; Landscaping’s good, bad, and ugly; How tomorrow doesn’t move; Feats of strength up next; If biking were a pill…; “Is the dog included?”; Robocop II: Dogwalkercop; Towers rise in London; And…. Keep reading…
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WMATA might offer open data for all regional transit
WMATA planners helped STLTransit create an animation of transit across the entire Washington region. That’s possible because WMATA has a single data file with all regional agencies’ schedules. They hope to make that file public; that would fuel even more tools that aid the entire region. Keep reading…
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What’s up with NextBus, part 3: Where Ride On is the leader
Which Washington-area bus system was the first to offer its bus position data in an open standard? Would you believe it’s Ride On? In part 2, we talked about how there are many different APIs — application programming interfaces, the way one computer system, like an app, gets data from to another, like bus positions from a transit agency. The fact that there are so many… Keep reading…
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Post-turkey video: That’s a lot of dots
Using GTFS data, STLTransit has created videos showing all of the transit vehicles in a city over one day. Here’s Washington’s. Keep reading…
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Apple dropping Google Transit is actually good for transit
To the disappointment of many, Apple’s new iOS 6 won’t include the Google Maps app, which means iPhone and iPad users won’t have access to Google’s transit directions. Future iOS users will need to install third-party apps for transit information. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Affordable
Time to study affordable housing; No vacancy at shelters; How would you fund Metro?; Stop harassment on Metro; McDonnell for DC autonomy; Crosswalk faces hurdles; Google goes real-time; Mayors on transit. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Half-measures disappoint
Thomas rejects chair, keeps seat; Graham rejects bribe, keeps mum; Weekend trains won’t be cut; Add extensions to Metro map?; Wells suggests escalator contracting; Live buses on Google Maps; Bank regrets leaving city for suburbs; At least we’re not Staten Island; And…. Keep reading…
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WMATA directions now on Google Transit!
Metrorail and Metrobus data are now a part of Google Transit! If you now go to Google Maps, you can get directions from one place to another not just by car and bike, but also by transit using WMATA services, as well as a few other area transit systems. Here’s a sample trip from Arlington to H Street: Keep reading…