{"items": [{"author": "Philip", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106864678915578475710", "anchor": "gp-1430276904585", "service": "gp", "text": "Jeff...Reading your post gave me an idea for tracking buses in my hometown Charlotte, NC.\n<br>\n<br>\nSince NextBus.com does not server our city, what do you think about using Google+ Location Sharing? \u00a0Each bus driver can carry a cell phone or GPS device that runs Google+.\n<br>\n<br>\nIf a bus rider wants to see all inbound bus #14 that are on the road, they can login to Google+ and open their Google+ \"Inbound Bus #14\" circle, and see all the #14 buses on Google Map.\n<br>\n<br>\nThis way, rider can see how far away from them the buses are.\n<br>\n<br>\nWe will need to develop a Google+ app that can easily create bus circles for riders.\n<br>\n<br>\nThis will be open source per \nhttp://www.codeforcharlotte.org/\n Code for America.", "timestamp": 1430276904}, {"author": "Jeff&nbsp;Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1430308198566", "service": "gp", "text": "@Philip\n\u00a0There's no API for G+ location sharing, so this would have to include writing an app to run on the phones and report back location. \u00a0That's not too bad. \u00a0These could be pretty old phones. \u00a0On the other hand, I NextBus does quite a bit of work on top of the raw gps data, like estimating arrival times, which is pretty useful.", "timestamp": 1430308198}]}