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hbus.ca and thoughts about crowdsourcing
hbus in actionSo I opened up my baby, hbus.ca, to the public last week (though traffic only really started to pick up yesterday, after a positive article in the daily news). This site, a trip planner...
View ArticleCreating a google transit feed for fun and profit
People frequently ask me how I manage to collect and input the data that is used by hbus.ca, given Metro Transit’s intransigence. The “bike and GPS” angle is well known by now, but what about the rest...
View ArticleProjects for 2010
Hurrah, 2010 is upon us! One new years resolution I have set for myself is to blog more about what I’m working on. I’ve learned over the last year that the audience of people who care about your...
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Oh, the lines! And some help for Edmonton.
A productive day on the transit development front. Finished up a few big features related to hbus.ca and Transit to Go: Sped up the graph and database generation by an order of magnitude. Not too...
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hbus is back
After a month long hiatus, I finally had a chance to get hbus.ca back into a working state. The big difference is that we’re now using the official HRM transit data. Lots more remains to be done to...
View ArticleGoogle Transit Halifax is down (but hbus and Transit to Go are still up)
Due to some schedule adjustments, it appears as if Metro Transit’s Google Transit is temporarily out of service while they wait for Google to process their new transit feed. However, fear not! Unlike...
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Routez opensourced
Just a quick note to say that I just opensourced the software behind hbus.ca, nicknamed “Routez” under the Affero GPL. You can get the code on github. For those new to the project, hbus.ca is a generic...
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Updates on my ridiculous pet projects
1. As you may or may not have noticed, hbus.ca has been down for the past few weeks. Halifax updated the data but I didn’t have a chance to update it. Well, I finally did, and hbus is now up in its...
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