Tag: mashups

Transit stops on Garmin

One of the biggest benefits of transit agencies making their raw schedule data publicly available, as TriMet and others have done, is that riders are free to do interesting things with the information that the agency itself might not have thought of or have taken the time to do themselves. Case in point: Brett Warden in Portland is using TriMet’s GTFS feed to create a POI (points of interest) file for his dashboard-mounted GPS.

nice open geodata example

Mashing KML and GeoRSS in 3D on the Web

I took his GeoRSS feed and a KML file from KPBS showing activity around the Fires and added each of them as a distinct layer to the VE Map Control. Because Virtual Earth runs In a web browser its easy to build applications that link to and interact with other web pages and take advantage of the myriad of web development tools that are out there, while not having to sacrifice on visualization options for your geo data

haha. one of these days i will get used to ms touting kml