Lightweight Bus Map |
February 24th, 2015 |
| tech, transit |
If I'm running for the bus or trying to figure out when to leave the
house then I want to be able to look up stop predictions as quickly
and simply as possible. But sometimes I'm waiting at a stop and
trying to understand predictions that don't make much sense. I'd
still like to interact with something that's as fast as possible, but
now instead of just predictions I'd like to see the reports from
the buses that the predictions are based off of. Is there a bus
waiting at the terminal, or making its way from the bus lot to the
terminal? Is there a bus coming that just needs to turn around and go
back the other way? So I made a map:
Referenced in: Bus Predictions: Open Source
As before, it's very simple and gives up nearly everything to be fast. No external map tiles, one round trip, minimal graphics. Try it out by going into the predictions page, choosing a route and a stop, and clicking on a vehicle id. Or just try this example.
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