by Brendan Nee on Nov 7, 2009
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 about open transit data [...]
by Brendan Nee on Oct 25, 2009
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 [...]
by Brendan Nee on Jun 26, 2009
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 [...]