CTA Bus Tracker + 2D Barcodes

Hmm, it might be illegal, or at least frowned upon by the cta. But I see where you are going with this and I'm really interested in it. Something like the shopsavvy app for the G1(http://www.biggu.com/).

However, I really do not the logistics of making something like this happen are all that difficult. First we would need a repository database that would be something like a key-value pair where each individual stop would have its own stop id, which is something the cta has already done with their bus tracker. IE stop 14914 is the eastbound stop for the 77 Belmont bus at Belmont and Broadway. Using the CTA as the data source would could build pre-configured queries, pass the stop id to a web service and then using this amazing API(http://ctabusapi.jottit.com/) load the appropriate url for the necessary bus.

That gets me thinking, are the bus stop signs labeled by their individual stop id? If they were all one would need to do is take a photo of the id and then a program could translate the image into text and do a look up on that bus stop. Hmm... I'll be sure to check this out in the morning.

The other day my fingers were freezing and I wanted to look up 2 buses in order to see which was going to arrive first. As I was doing this and the feeling in my fingers slowly faded away I found myself very frustrated with all the different page loads and unnecessary paging that I had to go through when going from one bus stop to another bus stop. So to fix that problem, using the api I mentioned above(http://ctabusapi.jottit.com/) I created this simple CTA Bus Tracker page with three drop down lists for route, direction and stop - www.scaredpanda.com/bustracker - I use it now because I wanted everything on one page. I have found it to be much simpler than the CTA's mobile site.

Thanks,

- Clint

Thanks, I didn't create it with any ajax functionality, just javascript post backs on a single page.

The TextMark is a great idea, I think we are both on the same page here. I looked at the bus stop yesterday and there is an identifier, but I don't know where the cta stores this particular id and if it is made public.

I think that we need to look into this some more.

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I see with Microsoft Tag and other barcode apps is that you still need to download and install an app on your phone. Most of the general public still don't have smartphones although that is changing. This is really a good application shared in this Thesis.
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