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Show HN: Live London bus departures from multiple stops

32 points by nathell 14y ago

jgrahamc 14y ago
This is nice. My ambient solution is a model bus: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from-hacked.html http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from...
- nathell 14y ago
  Awesome! I was actually thinking of something like this but have two left hands when it comes to electronics. This one is an attempt to mimic the on-stop display with no distractions and supporting multiple stops. A 15-minute hack, really.
eli 14y ago
Neat. I hacked together one for DC's buses a while back. It uses the HTML5 Geolocation API to find stops near your current location. Unfortunately that's currently the only way to use it: http://www.dcbusinfo.com/ http://www.dcbusinfo.com/ (so it ain't gonna do much if you're not in the Greater DC Metro area) One of these days I'll add the ability to search by address, landmark, or Stop ID.
sjtgraham 14y ago
Nice work. I made a Ruby Gem for querying the TFL bus API: https://github.com/stevegraham/boris https://github.com/stevegraham/boris It has a CLI so I can type `boris 51889` to see the status of my local bus stop. I'm going to add Core Location to it so one doesn't need to enter a bus stop code, instead it will just return the status of the nearest stops.
- nathell 14y ago
  I like the name!
cburgmer 14y ago
Nice work. I'd like to see more projects around public data. Especially as mashups could potentially add much benefit on a otherwise narrow source. Also kudos to TfL for providing that data. Back in Germany it's very hard to come by such sources.
- tvirot 14y ago
  From Boston: http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/apps/ http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/apps/ http://hubwaydatachallenge.org/ http://hubwaydatachallenge.org/
paulwithap 14y ago
Some ideas for improving the usability: Add a search feature for stops. Results for stops include a link to add the stop to their list of stops. When a user is done adding stops, they hit a submit button that generates the query string, appends it to the URL and navigates to that page.
leobabauta 14y ago
Could someone hack one of these up for San Francisco (Muni and BART)? Or is there already one? I use 511.org but it's not great.
nathell 14y ago
Source code: https://github.com/nathell/bus https://github.com/nathell/bus

32 points by nathell 14y ago

This is nice. My ambient solution is a model bus: http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from-hacked.html http://blog.jgc.org/2012/03/ambient-bus-arrival-monitor-from...

nathell 14y ago
Awesome! I was actually thinking of something like this but have two left hands when it comes to electronics. This one is an attempt to mimic the on-stop display with no distractions and supporting multiple stops. A 15-minute hack, really.

eli 14y ago

Neat. I hacked together one for DC's buses a while back. It uses the HTML5 Geolocation API to find stops near your current location. Unfortunately that's currently the only way to use it: http://www.dcbusinfo.com/ http://www.dcbusinfo.com/ (so it ain't gonna do much if you're not in the Greater DC Metro area) One of these days I'll add the ability to search by address, landmark, or Stop ID.

sjtgraham 14y ago

Nice work. I made a Ruby Gem for querying the TFL bus API: https://github.com/stevegraham/boris https://github.com/stevegraham/boris It has a CLI so I can type `boris 51889` to see the status of my local bus stop. I'm going to add Core Location to it so one doesn't need to enter a bus stop code, instead it will just return the status of the nearest stops.

nathell 14y ago
I like the name!

cburgmer 14y ago

Nice work. I'd like to see more projects around public data. Especially as mashups could potentially add much benefit on a otherwise narrow source. Also kudos to TfL for providing that data. Back in Germany it's very hard to come by such sources.

tvirot 14y ago
From Boston: http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/apps/ http://www.mbta.com/rider_tools/apps/ http://hubwaydatachallenge.org/ http://hubwaydatachallenge.org/

paulwithap 14y ago

Some ideas for improving the usability: Add a search feature for stops. Results for stops include a link to add the stop to their list of stops. When a user is done adding stops, they hit a submit button that generates the query string, appends it to the URL and navigates to that page.

leobabauta 14y ago

Could someone hack one of these up for San Francisco (Muni and BART)? Or is there already one? I use 511.org but it's not great.

nathell 14y ago

Source code: https://github.com/nathell/bus https://github.com/nathell/bus