Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend

Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by coldtea on Monday October 03, 2016 @10:00AM (#12627462)

>know if/when a bus is reaching a stop from outside the bus in question, especially with geofencing, in order to know whether the bus I want to take is running early/late/not.

We had that, through GPS + GPRS (or SMS?), back in 2001-2 in a small city I was living in Europe. Complete with full (flash based) website map of where each bus is.

I used it to get out of the tech park/institute I worked at and into the bus stop outside at the very last minute (since bus timetables where completely unreliable).

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Re:Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend by vidarh on Monday October 03, 2016 @01:09PM (#12629255)

GPS is insufficient to give accurate enough estimates these days. It may or may not work depend on your local routes and stops, but it's too imprecise for a lot of locations and traffic conditions to give decent precision. It's good as a "first approximation" and if you don't have anything better. Most systems today end up integrating data from multiple different sensors to improve on gps.

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