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> They also stopped publishing the track number on the website — so going back to scraping was not an option either. So the only way to gather the data would b
by karrotwaltz 9y ago
> They also stopped publishing the track number on the website — so going back to scraping was not an option either.
So the only way to gather the data would be manually from the station.
- drinchev 9y agoAhhh.. Missed that. Thanks!
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoCarefully placed raspberry pi + OCR?
- vinnycoyne 9y agoI'd imagine that placing a "homemade" electronic device in a densely-populated, public space is going to attract a lot of unwanted attention.
- laylomo2 9y agoFrom all those military guards that parade up and down the station
- InitialLastName 9y agoYou joke, but Penn Station and Port Authority are effectively occupied territory. There are at least four different law enforcement agencies present and patrolling, stopping and frisking anybody who "looks out of place", hassling homeless people, and generally making you feel "safer".
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoWith the right 3D printed case you can make a raspberry pi look pretty benine.
- kogepathic 9y agoJust add the ability in the app to take a photo of the screen and use OCR to identify the train/platform. All he'd need is one or two users to take a photo of the screen and he'd have his source of historical platform data.