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>Here's an interesting hack of Google Maps that offers a wonderful
>alternative interface to the Seattle Metro real-time bus information:
>http://www.busmonster.com/.
>Beleive it or not, you have long been able to pull up a web applet to
>see where Seattle buses are at a given moment, complete with route
>numbers. Not where they are scheduled to be-- where they are. The applet
>updates the positions of the busses in real time, which makes it
>possible to, for example, work at your desk until the last possible
>moment before your bus arrives. It all relies upon a network of sensors
>and busses equipped with simple transmitters. It's pretty cool, but the
>map itself is quite primitive.
As I recall, which doesn't mean much these days - the memory definitely
appears to be going - Madison Metro wanted to put GPS locaters on every
bus, and have kiosks in all of the bus shelters so you could look them up.
This was decried as a massive waste of money, given that they were having
ridership problems, were going to raise the fares, and all of that.
I would like to see such a thing, because it would be useful, at least
downtown. But heck, the fact that we can now plan routes over the web by
stop number is almost spiffy enough, and maybe I ought to be glad where we
are...
Rich
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