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Mark
Looks like your data is outdated. Routesy is back on the App Store and
was last updated Dec 2:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/routesy-pro-bay-area-san-francisco/id284950244?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Moreover, if you read the SF article, it appears they called the bluff
of the company and they didn't actually take any legal action. Muni in
SF also said it was happy with developers using the NextBus data.
NBIS, which threatened the Routesy developer, is actually a completely
separate company from NextBus.
I don't think there's any reason to worry about using the data.
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https://gist.github.com/826849
I then wrote a quick and dirty PHP script to return the shapes that
correspond to a given bus route (for just the first trip match, it's
not doing anything smart with day of week etc.) and wrote an iPhone
app to query the script and plot the map data. Here's the map for MTA
route #1:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/downloads/MTAMap.png
Which is pretty similar to this:
http://mta.maryland.gov/services/bus/routes/bus/01map910.pdf
So looks like the data is usable!
Do you think an app like this would be useful to many people? It
could probably plot bus stops too, times of next arrivals, etc. We
should probably make sure that this hasn't been done already by
someone too, since in theory this could be a general GTFS viewer (i.e.
not just Maryland), and I'd be kinda surprised if no-one's thought of
it yet...
If this is worth proceeding on, probably best to start with "the
simplest possible useful thing" and go from there. I could handle the
iPhone programming side, but would need someone to help figure out
what the app's UI should be like (ideally someone who uses the MTA
regularly), and someone to develop a nice web service/API to make
querying the DB easy and import fresh data regularly.
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James, if you could throw together a quick paper-napkin sketch of what
a simple UI for version 1.0 of an iPhone app should look like that
would be a good start.
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Ray Wenderlich
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I don't have much server-side/web background, so although I can
probably hack together enough to get the iPhone app working,
definitely wouldn't be able to do the web components you're talking
about. So if you still want to proceed with that, we'd need a
web/server side guy to help out.
Timewise, I'm pretty swamped for the next month or so, and will only
have a few random hours here and there to hack at it. I'm willing to
put in some time to work on this now and again for fun, it just might
take a while.
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Ray Wenderlich
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I don't have much server-side/web background, so although I can
probably hack together enough to get the iPhone app working,
definitely wouldn't be able to do the web components you're talking
about. So if you still want to proceed with that, we'd need a
web/server side guy to help out.
Timewise, I'm pretty swamped for the next month or so, and will only
have a few random hours here and there to hack at it. I'm willing to
put in some time to work on this now and again for fun, it just might
take a while.
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Ray Wenderlich
Blog: http://www.raywenderlich.com
Twitter: @rwenderlich
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