BlinkTag Inc » open data http://blinktag.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 County Connection GTFS is live on Google Maps http://blinktag.com/county-connection-gtfs-is-live-on-google-maps/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=county-connection-gtfs-is-live-on-google-maps http://blinktag.com/county-connection-gtfs-is-live-on-google-maps/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:36:51 +0000 Brendan Nee http://blinktag.com/?p=904 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 that uses GTFS data is Google Map’s Transit Trip Planner. County Connection’s routes are now available on google maps website and on smartphones that have google maps available. Also, the transit data is now open for developers to incorporate into their apps. Examples of transit apps include Routesy, Bay Tripper and Anystop

See a sample trip on google transit: Walnut Creek, CA to Alamo, CA
Get raw GTFS file: CCCTA GTFS on GTFA Data Exchange

]]> http://blinktag.com/county-connection-gtfs-is-live-on-google-maps/feed/ 0 MUNI real time arrival data now free and open http://blinktag.com/muni-real-time-arrival-data-now-free-and-open/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=muni-real-time-arrival-data-now-free-and-open http://blinktag.com/muni-real-time-arrival-data-now-free-and-open/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:26:31 +0000 Brendan Nee http://blnktag.com/?p=600 muni_xmlJed 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 in general and its great that our local transit agency is leading the way to opening up its real time data.

View the documentation & data on MUNIs site.

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