Re:Why Do Buses Bunch?
by gordo4 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:50PM
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That app was built by a UW student and uses estimated data based on the schedule, as far as I know. It's not accurate... unless things have changed in the last year or so since I moved.
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It's always been real-time location data. At one point it was pretty low-tech (odometer hooked up to a radio transmitter) but it's now been GPS-based for ~5 years.
Are we talking about OneBusAway?
These days OneBusAway is just one frontend for the data, the Transit app has the same information.
Re:Why Do Buses Bunch?
by lenticular on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @07:45PM
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When that app (OneBusAway) first came out, it was extremely accurate. It completely went to crap when Metro took over maintenance.
It's very accurate now. I don't know when your experience with it was.
It pulls from the same source that Google Maps currently does, so feel free to use whichever you prefer.
Re:Why Do Buses Bunch?
by lenticular on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @10:05AM
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I last used it about 4 or so years ago, so of course things may have changed. It was appallingly bad though, to the point where it was no more accurate than posted schedules on the routes I rode. I just quit using it because it was so thoroughly useless. The sad thing is that it previously had worked extremely well. Glad to hear they've fixed the issues.