Phoenix lightrail gets an app
Posted on 31. Aug, 2009 by Tony Arranaga in Featured, News
UPDATE: Valley transit riders are giddy with excitement (or just one geeky blogger) at the possibility of an iPhone app for the Phoenix lightrail – especially after the company that makes the app commented on this post! What did he say? Read on.
I won’t believe the news until I see see it with my own two eyes. An iPhone app for our transit system? And with augmented reality. OH EM GEE!! I’m practically giddy! Click here.
7 Responses to “Phoenix lightrail gets an app”
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Will
31. Aug, 2009
Google Maps already does a lot of this, unfortunately my emails to Valley Metro haven’t resulted in the (ridiculously easy) information being sent to Google. (I’d volunteer to code the data export routine for them, in fact!)
http://transit.google.com
willbradley
31. Aug, 2009
@lightrailblog i wish valley metro would send their route info to google for inclusion in google maps
lightrailblog
31. Aug, 2009
@willbradley I hear ya. Instead, METRO uses the program “ShareTheRide’. It’s a’right. If you haven’t seen it click http://bit.ly/jVzEE
willbradley
31. Aug, 2009
@lightrailblog saw login page, did a 180′
only the nerdiest of huge nerds would actually create an account (and i’m an IT manager)
willbradley
31. Aug, 2009
@lightrailblog not to mention it doesn’t even do anything route-wise. I created an account, looks like it’s just Myspace for carpoolers.
Daniel
31. Aug, 2009
I doubt it’ll have information about out transit system considering we can’t even get “next train” information to show at the stations. A nice idea, for sure. And, it could be very helpful when traveling.
David Janes
01. Sep, 2009
We just have METRO light rail stations encoded, plus some information we’ve taken from Wikipedia. If the app is successful, we’ll probably start integrating more Google Transit features. This will depend on Phoenix ending up here: http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds of course
Here’s a screen shot of your location:
http://i.discoveranywheremobile.com/2009-08-31/IMG_0034.PNG
If there’s more data you need to see in there – and it’s available – send me a note or leave a comment on our blog.