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Mobile Transit App Roundup
Portland Afoot has a very nice overview of all the apps for your mobile phone to help you navigate TriMet, neatly divided by category.
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Javascript Good for Transit
Attention transit geeks! I’ll be speaking at the Portland Javascript Admirers group on Wednesday about the Transit Appliance project, which is mostly written in Javascript: Our first JavaScript meeting of the year will be on Wednesday, January 24th, from 7-9pm at Jive Software, 915 SW Stark St., Suite 400 . This will also be the…
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TransportationCamp
An exciting development for those of us who occupy the intersection between open government technology and transportation: OpenPlans, the folks who bring you Streetsblog and a variety of open source projects (including a trip planner they are building with a set of partners that includes TriMet) are convening two TransportationCamp events in New York City…
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Another Step Forward for Transit Appliances
The holiday break has been productive, I had a chance to polish up the first pass (“beta”) of a configuration service for the Transit Appliance project. This is a web-based GUI that lets you configure a custom display for transit arrival information. The idea is to allow this tool to configure multiple applications, and for…
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Organizing an Ecosystem
Over at the Transit Appliance site, I have a post up outlining the roles and partnerships that I think are necessary to sustain widespread provision of real-time transit information out there in the world.