Thu 14 Jun 2007
The Armchair Dispatcher
Posted by Joe Hughes under Activism, Operations, Realtime, San Francisco
Over at SFist, Matt Baume has been doing bang-up job on the MUNI beat. One of his innovations is the NextBus screencast, as demonstrated below:
By taking a time-lapse video capture of the online real-time bus map (and he details his methods in this post), he can go back and speculate about how things went awry. The example above shows how a detour for a street fair was handled. Neat!
Incidentally, since SFist doesn’t seem to offer a syndication feed for just their MUNI category, I threw one together using Pipes:
August 8th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Hi Joe
I have the iPhone and use the next muni feature that someone tooled around and re-created. Are you able to do this with the Google Map version showing the buses in movement too??
Great Site !
Joe B