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Transit Appliance Gets Some Notice – Time for a New Name?
I’ve been pleased to see that the posts on this site and on StreetFilms about the Transit Appliance have been retweeted and syndicated, bouncing around the net for a few days. And yesterday it got some love on the PDXCommute blog. I also had a chance to show it off at GOSCON (Government Open Source…
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National Transit Data on a Couple of Fronts
Do we need a national Transit Wiki? An ambitious, but intriguing project. How could the Portland region contribute? And coincident with RailVolution, the Center for Transit-Oriented Development has announced a National TOD Database.
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Transit Appliance Goes Out for a Beer
Today I had the opportunity to install our first alpha test unit of the Transit Appliance at Bailey’s Taproom (213 SW Broadway at Ankeny). Happily, compared to hotel WiFi setups, Bailey’s was a snap, with a simple passphrase entry. But each installation comes with new discoveries. At this location near the transit mall there are…
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Lessons Learned from Displaying the Transit Appliance at RailVolution
Opportunistically, I brought a couple of our “Transit Appliances” (which previously had not been tested anywhere other than my home office) to RailVolution with me. TriMet was very gracious and allowed me to display one on their hospitality table. And I was fortunate enough to catch the attention of Clarence Eckerson of Streetfilms, leading to…
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GTFS Infects Bing Maps
Google Transit drove the creation of GTFS (once named Google Transit Feed Specification, but now known as General Transit Feed Specification), a way for transit agencies to publish their schedule data in an open way, but it has found lots of other uses, and now Microsoft has added it to their Bing maps.