CTA Launched there limited line Bus Tracker with mobile (I think txt msg and web) interface on Monday: <a href="http://ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp">http://ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp</a><br><br>I haven't tried it.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Richard Stack <<a href="mailto:richard.stack@sbcglobal.net">richard.stack@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">A great idea, but there's a neat
opportunity here. A site called <a href="http://nextbus.com" target="_blank">nextbus.com</a> will tell you when the next bus
will arrive at your corner. It does this for a number of cities/areas, including
PACE. No integration that I know of with the CTA or Metra, but busses have GPS.</span></font></p>
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<a href="mailto:chicago-bounces@python.org" target="_blank">chicago-bounces@python.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:chicago-bounces@python.org" target="_blank">chicago-bounces@python.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Kevin Boers<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:22
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Chicago Python Users Group<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Chicago] Chance to try out AppEngine (and
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This sounds like a great idea; I'd love to help out!</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As it happens, I don't have a github account, so if you want to pass an
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cheers,</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Cosmin Stejerean wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well, it seems there is an ability to invite developers to collaborate</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I've been planning for a while to create a better interface to the</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Metra train times (<a href="http://metrarail.com" target="_blank">metrarail.com</a>). I'd like something with Twitter</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">integration (so I can ask from SMS what the next train is) and a</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I've started working towards this in Django but it seems like a</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">perfect excuse to to start doing some AppEngine work. Let me know if</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">left if anyone is interested). Also let me know if you have any other</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Completely unrelated but, you have the ability to restrict</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">only and integrate it into the existing Google Mail, Docs, etc.</span></font></p>
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