09:00 am, 5 Jan 10
muni android app, watch synchronization
Mostly of interest to San Francisco residents: I wrote an Android app that scrapes nextmuni arrival times a while back. I never announced it (I think?) or published it since they officially disallow scraping, but now there's an API so I don't feel so bad.
My friend Joe did a truly awesome hack with muni data as well: he can pick a stop on his phone, then his bluetooth-speaking watch will display up to date arrival times. I remember thinking, "huh, neat" when I read about it on his blog, but now that I have seen it I can assure you my reaction was "AWESOME!"
My friend Joe did a truly awesome hack with muni data as well: he can pick a stop on his phone, then his bluetooth-speaking watch will display up to date arrival times. I remember thinking, "huh, neat" when I read about it on his blog, but now that I have seen it I can assure you my reaction was "AWESOME!"
Holy Duplicated Work, Batman
It's a testament to the damage that those available-but-not-open APIs did that this kind of thing was reinvented so many times. I see you put a JSON wrapper around their API on App Engine. Me too! And I was just literally the other day starting on a new Android app that would call it, though now you've announced this I don't think I'll bother, or at least I'll hack on yours instead of mine since yours is far further along.
Clearly open data is for the win. Now I'd just like to convince all of the other transit agencies on NextBus to allow themselves to be exposed via the API, including sf-weta (the ferries) and actransit.