Puzzlepieces – tag ‘transit’

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cityofsound: Transport informatics - insanely comprehensive overview of today’s status on data and transportation systems

I started writing this post a few weeks ago and have mostly forgotten what I was going to write about. whups…

Headway Wiki is a great wiki for public transit data, which accompanies the Headway blog. I added some links for Waterloo, Toronto, and Seattle.

It is great seeing that some cities are opening up their data in a somewhat standard format, although I wish everyone would. Governments trying to keep their data private is almost universally pointless and counter-productive. Google Transit seems to be the best generalized transit trip planner (on the other hand, there seem to be several new ones I haven’t explored), although sites targeted to specific cities often offer a lot more.

Unfortunately I missed out on the first Metronauts unconference, Metronauts being an expansion of TorontoTransitCamp. The wiki is sorta all over the place, but I guess moving from unconferences to major projects takes time.

Inscribed in the living tile: Type in the Toronto subway (Joe Clark) - I read just about all of this, so I must be crazy. As much as I’d like the TTC to fix the signage problem (I wouldn’t mind trying to fix it myself, I’ve certainly had problems with it), signage seems to be the least of the TTC’s problems these days.

Toronto Transit Camp - extremely cool idea. I’m not sure if I can attend (nor do I have a lot to contribute at the moment), but I am looking forward to the results.