Posts tagged "maps"

This is a followup to a post we did a while back that showed how to add the Google Transit and Google Bike layer to a google map using the Google Maps API. We’ve updated this with code based on Google Maps Javascript API version 3. Google Maps API v3 now allows you to add [...]

Bikesy.com is now available in the Chrome Web Store. Bikesy is the open source bike mapper that BlinkTag developed using graphserver and openstreetmap data. For those of you who haven’t tried bikesy, it lets you choose both a hill tolerance (how much you’d like to reroute to avoid San Francisco’s steep hills) and a safety [...]

From everyone at BlinkTag, we wish the city of Solo in Indonesia a very Happy 266th Birthday! Today, February 18, 2011, the city of Sukarta (colloquially Solo) is celebrating 266 years since its capital was built by Pakubuwono II on the banks of the Kali (River) Solo. We’re very proud to have worked along with USAID [...]

BlinkTag worked with the County Connection in Central Contra Costa County to format their schedules and routes into General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS). A GTFS file is an open specification that allows a transit agencies schedule and route information to be used by developers in a variety of applications. One of the most popular applications [...]

BlinkTag recently finished a project in Indonesia called Solo Kota Kita. We worked with a team in Indonesia to build a series of interactive maps for the city of Solo, Indonesia. This data was collected for very small regions of the city called “RTs” and complied. The statistics collected included sanitation, education, population and housing [...]

Using Google Maps API you can choose between a few different background layers: Standard, Satellite, Hybrid and Physical. This is done using the setMapType() method. However, there currently isn’t a way to get display the transit or bike map layer. However, Google Maps allows you to create your own tile layer and load in into [...]

So this might be kind of a gray area terms-of-service-wise, so do what you want with it. But if you’ve ever wondered how to mashup the Google Transit layer with your custom map, here’s how. While we aren’t advocating anybody actually do this, we’ve heard from a *confidential* source that Google implements new feature requests [...]

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 [...]

You’d think it would be easy to change the stacking order of things you overlay in Google Maps, right? Like, no one wants that stupid AC Transit logo to go underneath the polygon they drew . . . . . you’d think . . . . Anyways, after like five or six hours of poking [...]

To our loyal blog readers – this isn’t quite ready for production, but I wanted to explore BART’s new open data feed and do something fun. Comments, thoughts, appreciated. A few known issues: We’re still working on getting the real time feed up. Soon. The design isn’t great. We’ll be rolling out new ways to [...]

Not that I’m interested in living in waterfront property after my hometown was destroyed, but apparently our warehouse used to be on a lake. Right by the blue X (bonus: can you guess what major street didn’t exist on maps of the day?): Not sure if this group’s efforts well ever bear fruit, but it [...]

Even though it’s sort of Web 1.0, I’m glad someone is collecting these data. The New York maps are kind of boring, really, and more or less confirm what most people already know: there’s a lot going on there, all over, all the time. LA is more interesting, and because event venues are more spread [...]

You know what makes me mad? Lousy design. Take the Atlantic’s latest missive on how it’s unfair to incarcerate like half of the population of the City of New Orleans. Important issue, no doubt, and maybe it’s just me, but hiring a new graphic designer might make a bit more sympathetic to the cause. Without [...]

I just saw a very interesting post with scaled maps of major subway/metro systems of the world over at fakeisthenewreal.com.  BART appears to be the largest system in the world by reach.  BART is sort of a hybrid between a traditional metro system and a commuter rail system. I’m never sure if its the best [...]