Posted by science
on December 18, 2008
Science knocked out a little Bart train application a couple of nights ago for your pleasure. Bart, for those foreigners, is the inter-city train system which services San Francisco and the surrounding areas.
The application provides you with real time arrival data for any station in the Bart system. It returns data in a format suitable for reading on most web-enabled cell phones.
To use this new application, simply point your phone (or computer) web browser to:
http://www.misuse.org/transit/bart/stations
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Posted by science
on December 17, 2008
Readers may be familiar with this site’s GeoX application, which integrates Yahoo, Google, and until the end of January, MapQuest. At that time, MapQuest is switching over to an alternative API system and decommissioning their old api. This seems to be getting a lot of good blog press, but Science is skeptical by nature. As we’ll see, not everything is as it appears.
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