Showing posts with label Bus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bus. Show all posts

Thursday, April 1, 2010

San Francisco, CA Muni Bus Locator

The Muni Bus Locator allows you to stay inside until the bus is outside. Select a route, and the route, buses, and stops are drawn on an interactive map. Click a bus to see it's speed and status. Zoom in to see individual stops. Select a stop to see the predicted next arrivals. Press the menu button to select another route, or change map mode mode from Map to Satellite.

Search the Market for: Muni Locator

Or... Click/Scan the QR code below:

Sunday, February 7, 2010

R-Line App

I just published an application that displays real-time status of Raleigh, NC's downtown buses. Currently, Raleigh's monitoring is limited the R-Line route.

The two buses show up as black dots. Red markers are bus stops. The blue line is the primary route, and the red lines show the evening (after 6:30PM) modified routes.

The app was fun to create. It leverages web services, Google's Map APIs, and Quattro's advertisement APIs. Sorry about the ads, but I couldn't help myself to try it out. They should at least be occasionally targeted to the RDU market.

Data updates every 5 seconds, although the bus data is usually only updated from the buses every 30 seconds.

Future enhancements I hope to include click-able markers to display the stop name, bus name, etc.

Make sure you've upgraded to version 1.16 to ensure you continue to receive bus location updates.