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http://bostontraintrack.com

Real time tracking of Boston subways, buses and commuter rails.

Made mostly in a weekend and available free and open source [1]. Though it's simple, I think it gives a nice overview of the trains and buses. Boston has stop prediction so in some sense it's kind of frivolous. I think the biggest 'innovation' was to integrate the "map icons" into a nicely visualized open street map [2].

Not super popular but it's been running for around 2 years with ~20 hits per weekday.

[1] https://github.com/abetusk/bostontraintrack

[2] https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com/



Ha! That's cool: I can hear the red line go under my apartment, and your visualization synced up pretty closely with the noises.


Busses too?! Man, I wish this were around in the Bay Area!


This is very possible [1]. I use NextBus for the real time bus mapping even though the MBTA offers it because I've found NextBus to be much more accurate and stable.

I'm a little nervous because I might be violating their terms of service in using their feed without being an official customer but it's been running for a couple of years now without issue.

[1] http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command...




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