The next stop should be Helsinki

March 3, 2008 in geo, government, maps, open access, R&D, web by admin | 1 comment

Check out what open public transit data is available in Finland:

http://transport.wspgroup.fi/hklkartta/

I suspect a small minority of transit authorities in Canada may actually have GPS units on board buses, but I haven’t heard of any making the data publicly accessible — and not in such fine form. This is really beautiful to see, but it fills me with shame that we are light-years behind.

Original article in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/28/research.transport

Is anyone aware of any real-time data being made available in Canada?

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  1. Sara’s avatar

    Sara on March 5, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Yes, the York transit system, “Viva”
    http://www.vivayork.com/

    It’s not online, but they have a display at every bus stop which gives real time data from the buses on that line.

    The Finland one is amazing, thanks for linking to it!

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