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Never Missing the Train Again
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#52This sounds like a fun project, but there are existing apps whose default page is "when is the next bus/train coming up on stops near me" Transit App ( https://transitapp.com/ ) is one of them and I freaking love their interface overall. This app's default view shows you the next bus (in either directions) at the 3-4 transit stops closest to your current location. And you can customize/add favs too. It's a beautiful…
Thanks - this is exactly what I need especially the widget which displays nearby upcoming trains and buses on the home screen.
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#53BART's on a takt now though. so you just have to memorize like 3 times for your local station
That’s only true if they reliably follow their schedule.
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#54BART and MUNI both support the General Transit Feed Specification.[1] There's a
standard way to obtain this data.
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#55If you want a transportation app built for locals I highly recommend Transit. When you open the app it shows you the transit options closest to you, where they’re heading, and when the next one arrives. Never have to put in a destination.
Android here. Have you looked at the amount of data this shares with third parties? No ads but holy hell. No thanks.
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#56It ought to be easier to get a blank slate of a small device with some compute power and a screen, like the Kindle here, without having to jailbreak something.
There is one, it's called the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, but due to the small volume and the target audience largely being not-my-own-money (think educational institutions), the price is quite detached from the production cost.
Arduino-compatible devices based on ESP32 are plenty powerful enough at a fraction of the cost.
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#57Not to diminish OP’s project, but the stated goal of “know when each transit line has an upcoming train/tram/bus” is probably already achieved by https://transitapp.com/ - the default view when you open the app is a list of nearby transit lines, sorted by distance and showing the next departure for each.
Like that there's no ads but it's a big no on the "data shared with third parties". Assuming this is how they make money? I'd rather wait 10 more mins for the bus I just missed.
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#58BART and MUNI both support the General Transit Feed Specification.[1] There's a standard way to obtain this data. [1] https://gtfs.org/documentation/overview/#gtfs-realtime
Do you know how reliable is the realtime info? I find that Google maps very often says “bus coming in 4 min” as im watching the bus drive away. Or “delayed by 5 min” and it’s early by 2, etc.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You might see the plural busses, but that form is so rare that it seems like an error to many people. [...] When the word bus was new, the two plurals were in competition, but buses overtook busses in frequency in the 1930s, and today is the overwhelming choice of writers and editors. -- https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/plural-of-bus Went ahead and used Google Ngram viewer to show the popularity difference,…
Ooh nice, I didn't know that Ngram tool! I've heard references to word frequency but didn't know where to do it. Thanks for jumping in with a bit of analysis. Of course, if USA-based anglophones want to continue using a particular spelling or pronunciation, we know we don't have the power to stop them. I bow out of this one.
In this case, we really, really don’t want to continue using “busses” as a plural noun. Merriam-Webster is the authority. We’d rather fight our holy war over labor and center.
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#60If you're in the UK you can buy a depature board that mimics a station departure board: https://ukdepartureboards.co.uk/store/product/desktop-depart...
There's also https://departureboards.mobi/departures/BTH which mimics the departure boards used in some stations.