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Fun fact for folks in Seattle, San Diego, Tampa, Washington, D.C., Spokane, etc: Professor Kari Watkins, mentioned in the article, is the co-creator of OneBusAw
by aaronbrethorst 7y ago
Fun fact for folks in Seattle, San Diego, Tampa, Washington, D.C., Spokane, etc: Professor Kari Watkins, mentioned in the article, is the co-creator of OneBusAway.
OneBusAway, or OBA, in case you aren't familiar with it, is an open source real time transit information system, and includes a full backend, plus iOS and Android client apps. OBA had belonged to the University of Washington until recently, when it was spun out into a new 501(c)(3) non-profit, called the Open Transit Software Foundation: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org
(n.b. I'm the maintainer of OneBusAway for iOS, and a member of the OTSF board.)
- windthrown 7y agoThank you for pointing this out! And thank you for your work on OBA: I use it in San Diego and it’s a fantastic app.
- xtiansimon 7y agoI think transit apps is a really interesting problem. Transit App was a favorite until a redesign they did a few years ago. And they have never tackled the user interaction challenge of making transfers make any sense. This space has very tangible information/ux problems.
- aaronbrethorst 7y agoThere's a ton that could be done to improve this problem. If you ever want to pitch in, come join the mailing list or the Slack group. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/onebusaway-developers https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/onebusaway-developer... https://onebusaway.herokuapp.com https://onebusaway.herokuapp.com