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http://bostontraintrack.com http://bostontraintrack.com Real time tracking of Boston subways, buses and commuter rails. Made mostly in a weekend and available
by abetusk 10y ago
http://bostontraintrack.com http://bostontraintrack.com
Real time tracking of Boston subways, buses and commuter rails.
Made mostly in a weekend and available free and open source [1]. Though it's simple, I think it gives a nice overview of the trains and buses. Boston has stop prediction so in some sense it's kind of frivolous. I think the biggest 'innovation' was to integrate the "map icons" into a nicely visualized open street map [2].
Not super popular but it's been running for around 2 years with ~20 hits per weekday.
[1] https://github.com/abetusk/bostontraintrack https://github.com/abetusk/bostontraintrack
[2] https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com/ https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com/
- westoncb 10y agoHa! That's cool: I can hear the red line go under my apartment, and your visualization synced up pretty closely with the noises.
- rosstex 10y agoBusses too?! Man, I wish this were around in the Bay Area!
- abetusk 10y agoThis is very possible [1]. I use NextBus for the real time bus mapping even though the MBTA offers it because I've found NextBus to be much more accurate and stable. I'm a little nervous because I might be violating their terms of service in using their feed without being an official customer but it's been running for a couple of years now without issue. [1] http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command=vehicleLocations&a=sf-muni&t=0 http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command...