Welcome to Metro-Developer Beta
Hello everyone, welcome to Metro's new developer site.
Metro.net/developer is our new technical resource site meant to attract a community of developers and foster innovative technology. This is the place to share data with interested groups including developers as well as academics, and transit partners. We are launching with two types of data and the start of a web service.
As this is a new effort for Metro, we hope to make more data and resources available as they are ready. The best way to keep abreast of these updates is to subscribe to this blog (look for the RSS link on this page). We also encourage interested parties to join our community (click on the sign up button in the top toolbar) and give us feedback, help us make this site better.
In addition to news about Metro data, we'll also post updates about our current rebuild/redesign effort of our main website, metro.net
Thanks for stopping by,
Lan-Chi Lam, Interactive Design Manager (Metro)
Comments on this entry:
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June 10, 2009
Thanks for this, it's really awesome.
But, if you have the GTFS data, why isn't it available in the public Google Transit system? I know what to do with GTFS data, but I bet most of your ridership doesn't.
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June 11, 2009
Thanks for your comment plattypus1.
Google requires a separate license agreement with each transit property that owns its own route and schedule information for data quality control reasons. Metro is actively pursuing a more formal business relationship with Google and will make a subsequent announcement if and when that relationship comes to fruition. We also wanted to make the data available to everyone.
As this site is a resource to developers, it is also a resource for Metro personnel and departments who currently supply data to the public. Preparing, compiling, packaging, then sending the data can be a manual and arduous task; this site serves as a repository for commonly requested data to aid that effort.
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June 10, 2009
Well done.
Thanks for making this resource available to us! -
June 11, 2009
can't wait to get started!
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June 11, 2009
Hi phatkeyz83,
Thanks for the comment. Be sure to let us know what you're doing and how we might help!
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June 11, 2009
Hooray! I must have e-mailed Metro at least half a dozen times about this. It looks like the bus information is starting to percolate into the Google Maps info... but the light-rail also needs to show up. Right now it has me going all the way out to Azusa by bus (187-185-SilverStreak...) to get from Pasadena to Union Station in LA, instead of just putting me on the Gold Line...
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June 11, 2009
Hi Everybody,
You may notice that the [Reply to the Post] button is misbehaving. We're working on it -- check back in a couple of days.
-Doug
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June 12, 2009
Are the APIs up and running as of today, June 12. I'm having some difficulties getting in.
Also, is there going to be a status message that can be checked from an app when the data feed is down?
Rob M.
