Transit App Blog
medium.com/transit-app · Company blog · on HN since 2016
The Transit App team writes about building transit maps, real-time arrival tracking, and trip planning in their app.
What HN saysHN commenters praise its posts on auto-generated maps and the Apple vs. Google comparison, though one notes the comparison omits desktop support.
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Most-shared posts
- 1How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps7 people · 459 points · first shared 2016 · 60 comments on HN
- 2Transit Maps: Apple vs. Google vs. Transit App5 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3Building the world's most accurate transit tracker3 people · 22 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
- 4We shrank our trip planner till it didn’t need data3 people · 10 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 5Transit starts crowd-sourcing real-time transit times as official feed breaks2 people · 230 points · first shared 2017 · 72 comments on HN
- 6Real-time data is now available for ALL New York City subways2 people · 23 points · first shared 2017 · 7 comments on HN
- 7Lyft is trying to shut down bikeshare in Transit App2 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8How we mapped the world’s weirdest streets2 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 9How we’re using machine learning at Transit to improve Real-Time bus predictions1 people · 9 points · first shared 2019 · 4 comments on HN
- 10Finally: a real solution to first and last mile trips1 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Transit’s public transportation app gets $17.5M in funding1 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12Bikes with transit: faster than cars1 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 13What do bus riders want? Crowding info1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 14The man who makes transit systems better overnight1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Real-time crowding info added to Transit app to help avoid crowds1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
red_admiral · 2016-10-08
Looks lovely. But their comparison with apple and google (https://medium.com/transit-app/transit-maps-apple-vs-google-vs-us-cb3d… is missing something: "works on a desktop computer". I have a surface 3 pro with chrome/firefox/edge installed, I'd love if there were some html5 web view onto this for planning trips in advance, where I quite like the larger screen size and the ability to screenshot/print just in case.
bogomipz · 2017-08-07
>"Fortunately, because the MTA has exposed the live schedule data, Google Maps lets you check this (sadly, it isn't 100% reliable: oftentimes a train will claim to have arrived somewhere, or even be departing from a station, while it's still getting there)."
Yes and the issue is that the MTA doesn't make the service disruption data available.
See:
https://medium.com/transit-app/how-were-bringing-real-time-countdowns-…
Why wouldn't you make this data available? Why stop short? Most likely because it would expose just how many unplanned maintenance disruptions there actually are.
zem · 2017-05-28
transit (the company) has some really nice blog posts about the difficulty of making transit maps
https://medium.com/transit-app/transit-maps-apple-vs-google-vs-us-cb3d…
https://medium.com/transit-app/how-we-built-the-worlds-prettiest-auto-…
JimmyAustin · 2016-10-11
I'm not sure if it is in your region, but Transit [0] recently blew me away. A ton of attention to detail and work put in, check out the blog post they had on HN recently about their autogeneration algorithms [1].
[0] https://transitapp.com/
[1] https://medium.com/transit-app/how-we-built-the-worlds-prettiest-auto-…
synparb · 2016-09-20
It's much more entertaining and useful to read about the overhaul from Transit itself: https://medium.com/transit-app/transit-4-0-is-now-live-2329f60fb3bb