The OneBusAway iPhone App
Metro’s hosting a forum for developers interested in developing transit-related applications, where they will have an opportunity to demo things they’ve already developed and learn about other opportunities:
Do you develop applications using transit data, or are you interested in doing so? Come to a free workshop hosted by King County Metro Transit and tell us how we can partner with you to make it easier. The event will include a panel discussion, an opportunity for participants to demonstrate their applications, a breakout session for exploring specific topics such as data feeds, real-time information, and upcoming updates in Metro technology. Registration is required.
When: Thursday, Oct. 22, 4-7 p.m.
Where: King Street Center, in downtown Seattle
To learn more or to register, visit www.kingcounty.gov/transportation/kcdot/MetroTransit/DataWorkshop.aspx or call 206-263-3792.
Other transit agencies aren’t nearly this proactive, so good for Metro to find a way to keep this effort going in the current budget environment.
(H/T: Brian Ferris)
I’ll be there. I’m skipping class to do so!
I’m sure it will be worth it.
Being a non-technical geek, I’m not attending…
BUT I’m curious if one of you will ask about their plans for actually advertising these apps.
I would love to get some ads posted in the buses, in stations/bus shelters, online, etc.
I assume it’s a question on limited resources and budgets, but I’d like to know who to follow-up with. If there’s agency willingness to do it, and funding is the problem, then I can work on either finding grant funding to pay for it, or we can talk about fundraising ourselves.
I may bail out of work early to attend this. Might be interesting.
I’m going to be specific here and say that there is a great lack of KC Metro Android apps. It will be interesting to see what is developed from this.