Posts tagged "bay area"

Is your transit agency’s system map on GitHub?

Today, we put an open source BART system map on GitHub for developers to use in apps. Now, you can make the BART map of your dreams, whether that means changing the Bay Area base map to an 8-bit version (awesome), turning the station icons into gumdrops (yum!), or changing the font to Papyrus (tears [...]

Unofficial Rail map of the Bay Area streamlines and integrates the patchwork of transit

BART released a new version of its official map this week.  Its a streamlined version:The folks at San Francisco Cityscape have created their own streamlined map that shows all the rail transit in the Bay Area.  It makes the system look much more comprehensive and integrated than it really is.  It includes BART, MUNI (streetcars [...]

if the chron gets it, it must be obvious

Maybe spreading common sense ideas and stating the obvious is a way for San Francisco’s most widely read fishwrapper to avoid the fate of other dailies, but I guess it’s good that they finally figured it out: MAYBE HAVING 26 TRANSIT AGENCIES IS BAD FOR BAY AREA COMMUTERS. Like, duh. Sarcasm aside, turns out that [...]