Peace, Love and C++

A few weeks back, I blogged about python-charlie, a python lib to get at Boston MBTA data.

I’ve since re-factored the code and mashed it up with “Super MBTA World”, by Adam Summerville of Circle Cat Games, a fantastic image of Boston’s public transit.

A few hours and a bit of flask later, here is “trendy” (I hate picking names) - which will move little Koopahs over the MBTA map.

It’s very incomplete, but it’s just showing off how awesome some of this data is.

Patches welcome!

I’ve whipped up two libs this week, and both have some pretty radical uses. The fist is python-charlie, which can be found on github, which is named in honor of Charlie on the MTA.

This lib will fetch data on the Boston MBTA T (rather, just the Red, Orange and Blue lines), which can actually be super useful in a lot of ways.

I’d love to see some hacks with this data!

The second is php-openstates, a PHP binding into the openstates API. It comes with a nifty little util to get some bill listings, but hopefully, this will mature as teh project grows.

Fork the project on github. Rock on.