Google Updates Streetview for Birmingham

Google has recently updated all their imagery for Google Street View in Birmingham, AL. Not only are the images much higher quality, but they have expanded their areas of coverage too.

This is great news for my Bus Stop Cataloging project! This will make it much easier to use my StreetView cataloger website. It is now easier to see the bus stop posts, the data is more recent and therefore more accurate to some of the newer route changes, and it covers more areas which means I can finally go back and fill in those missing spots!

If you’d like to help out, please visit my StreetView Cataloging website and start finding bus stops!

BJCTA Routes Available on 3rd Party Apps

As I have been working on cataloging the BJCTA bus stops and generating route data, I have been posting it online at the gtfs-data-exchange for anyone to use. While major companies like Google won’t pick up on this data until it is certified by the agency, smaller 3rd party applications are.

 

Over the weekend, HopStop updated their app and included my transit data for the BJCTA buses. HopStop has free apps on Android, iPhone, and Windows phone devices. While I have released my own trip planner for android devices (BJCTA Trip Planner), I don’t yet have one for iPhones or Windows phones, so I’m glad to see 3rd party apps incorporating my data!

HopStop Website | HopStop for Android | HopStop for iPhone | HopStop for Windows Phone

 

If anyone knows of any other 3rd party apps that have picked up my GTFS data, please comment!

BJCTA (Max) Bus Trip Planner for Android

I have created a Trip Planner app for Android phones. This was based on an open source OTP project that I was able to modify and customized to run against my trip planner.  It costs nothing and has no ads. Please give it a try an let me know if you like it! It is available in the Google Play store under the name BJCTA Trip Planner.

 

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You can learn more about it from the link below.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.line72.bjcta.opentripplanner.android

You can also grab the source code and submit patches from my github site:

https://github.com/line72/OpenTripPlanner-for-Android