I posted this over at transit-developers. I hope you'll enjoy it too. Mornin' Folks,
I'd like to share my weekend project with you, a visualization of Google Transit Feed Spec-formatted transit data. These videos, produced using the rad programming language 'Processing', display a dynamic map of the progression of all vehicles in a transit system over a span of time. Little erupting circles signal the departure of a vehicle from a stop. I've produced four so far, three of which I've uploaded to Flickr: Portland Trimet, Weekday, from 4 AM to 12 Midnight: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/2549055956/ Orange County Transit Authority, Weekday, 4 AM to 12 Midnight: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/2548290813/ Bay Area Rapid Transit, Weekday, 4 AM to 12 Midnight: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewedistrict/2549149806/ * *I made this as an illustration and confirmation of the principle that Joe just posted about (http://www.yjolt.org/11/fall/robinson-0)- that government is better suited to the creation and dissimination of raw data, and the community is far better suited to community-facing applications. Moreover, while open data is good, open _standards_ are even better, effectively greasing the skids for innovation. I'm an alright programmer but I'm a terrible artist. In the hopes someone can take this work and make it even prettier, I've included the source code under the MIT license. -B
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