[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Bus stop API

  • From: "j. eric townsend" <jet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:14:08 -0400

Can we get the google feed of everyone using location based services?

On 10/12/10 20:53, Sayan Chakraborty wrote:
the other way to do this is stick arduino+gps+phone into the buses :) to
send out a message over gumband


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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:shadow@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Doug Philips
    <douglas.philips@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:douglas.philips@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
     > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 16:51, Derrick Brashear
    <shadow@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:shadow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
     >> no real-time data for Pittsburgh. so you can have alerts to your
    heart's content, as long as you mean 'scheduled'
     >
     > I has a :-(
     >
     > Do you know how often the online schedule is updated re: actual
    bus schedules?
     > I guess the least/best we can hope for is that the schedule is right
     > even if the bus is iffy...

    New GTFS data is distributed with every "system pick", meaning if
    there's a new paper schedule, there's a new digital copy.

    --
    Derrick




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