Comments on: Sneak Peak: Tube Guru Concept http://kid666.com/2007/01/31/sneak-peak-tube-guru-concept/ Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:24:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tom Morris http://kid666.com/2007/01/31/sneak-peak-tube-guru-concept/comment-page-1/#comment-59305 Tom Morris Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:41:17 +0000 http://www.kid666.com/blog/2007/01/31/sneak-peak-tube-guru-concept/#comment-59305 That's pretty cool. I travel from Embankment or Cannon Street to High Street Kensington both ways three times a week, and I've already got those mental tricks tied in to my brain. Did you know that District line trains have two more carriages than Circle line trains, and so taking the Circle line means you have to move further up the platform? I'm working on a Twitter Tube Status system which you might be able to tie in to this. It basically polls London Transport for information about Tube breakdowns and sends the information to users subscribed through Twitter. It's a bit of caching, Python, BeautifulSoup, the Twitter posting API and some crontabs. Once I've got it working for London, I'm going to be doing screen scraping for other cities - Boston, New York and Paris etc. Perhaps you'd like to tie what you are doing in with the Metro project, which is a database of metro routes across the world available for the Palm, PocketPC, Windows Mobile and Symbian platform. I'm not sure what the data source they use is, but it may be something to look in to. I've exchanged emails (about the District Line actually after it gave me ropey directions to go from Wimbledon to Oxford Circus) with the developers and they are very helpful: http://metro.nanika.net/index-en.html Perhaps we ought to have a public transport workshop at BarCamp... That’s pretty cool. I travel from Embankment or Cannon Street to High Street Kensington both ways three times a week, and I’ve already got those mental tricks tied in to my brain. Did you know that District line trains have two more carriages than Circle line trains, and so taking the Circle line means you have to move further up the platform?

I’m working on a Twitter Tube Status system which you might be able to tie in to this. It basically polls London Transport for information about Tube breakdowns and sends the information to users subscribed through Twitter. It’s a bit of caching, Python, BeautifulSoup, the Twitter posting API and some crontabs. Once I’ve got it working for London, I’m going to be doing screen scraping for other cities – Boston, New York and Paris etc.

Perhaps you’d like to tie what you are doing in with the Metro project, which is a database of metro routes across the world available for the Palm, PocketPC, Windows Mobile and Symbian platform. I’m not sure what the data source they use is, but it may be something to look in to. I’ve exchanged emails (about the District Line actually after it gave me ropey directions to go from Wimbledon to Oxford Circus) with the developers and they are very helpful:
http://metro.nanika.net/index-en.html

Perhaps we ought to have a public transport workshop at BarCamp…

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