Posts tagged "muni"

MUNI real time arrival data now free and open

Jed and I are at Datacamp SF #cadata today. MUNI announced at the event that their real time arrival information is now open and free for developers to access. Its the same data that powers nextmuni. A while back we wrote a post complaining that this data wasn’t available. We’re excited [...]

BlinkTag Inc Company articulated bus

Update: SFist wrote a followup article about us and our bus.
Blnktag just pimped its ride!  $3,250.  Worth every penny.
What’s even sweeter is that we figured every hipster with $10,000 bucks would have bid on this guy, thanks to SFist.  But I guess the down economy has come to our rescue once again.
Burning Man, here we [...]

Who Owns Muni’s real time data?

SFAppeal wrote a great article detailing the hurdles of trying to get real time info from a public transit agency.
In the case of San Franciso Muni, they claim to own the data and also the desire for the public to access that. A Muni representative even mentioned that they want to provide their real [...]