[Chicago] Chance to try out AppEngine (and make my life easier)

[sheila miguez]

The other day I noticed that google maps added the bus routes and
times to the chicago map. The metra station pop-ups don't have arrival
and departure times, but maybe someone could feed into that?

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Rick Flosi <rick.flosi at gmail.com> wrote:
> CTA Launched there limited line Bus Tracker with mobile (I think txt msg and
> web) interface on Monday: http://ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp
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> I haven't tried it.
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> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Richard Stack <richard.stack at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
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> > A great idea, but there's a neat opportunity here. A site called
> nextbus.com 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.
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> > From: chicago-bounces at python.org [mailto:chicago-bounces at python.org] On
> Behalf Of Kevin Boers
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:22 PM
> > To: The Chicago Python Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Chicago] Chance to try out AppEngine (and make my life
> easier)
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> > Cosmin,
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> > This sounds like a great idea; I'd love to help out!
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> > As it happens, I don't have a github account, so if you want to pass an
> invite my way, that'd be awesome.
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> > Cheers,
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> > Kevin
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> > On Apr 8, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Cosmin Stejerean wrote:
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> > Well, it seems there is an ability to invite developers to collaborate
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> > with you on an application.
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> > I've been planning for a while to create a better interface to the
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> > Metra train times (metrarail.com). I'd like something with Twitter
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> > integration (so I can ask from SMS what the next train is) and a
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> > smarter ability to search (remember my stations and only show me
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> > upcoming train times for the current day of the week by default).
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> > I've started working towards this in Django but it seems like a
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> > perfect excuse to to start doing some AppEngine work. Let me know if
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> > you'd like to help with this and I can try to add you as a developer
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> > to the project (you'll need Git for this, I have 2 GitHub invitations
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> > left if anyone is interested). Also let me know if you have any other
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> > suggestions or ideas for the project.
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> > --
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> > Cosmin Stejerean
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> > http://blog.offbytwo.com
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> > PS.
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> > Completely unrelated but, you have the ability to restrict
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> > authentication to your Google Apps domain. This means it is possible
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> > to create (and perhaps resell) applications designed for internal use
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> > only and integrate it into the existing Google Mail, Docs, etc.
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> > http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/domains.html
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-- 
sheila