Prangz.com
March 24th, 2009
Yes, another Friday night coding spree.
I was itching to write an app that used real-time, location specific data and so http://prangz.com was born.
The whole app is 43 lines of code. It’s rails 2.3 and the scraper checks the RTA website every 2 minutes for new data.
Next up is an iPhone app, using the new 3.0 push capabilities. Apply some rules to the firehose so people only get what they want in the way of location and time. “Send me incidents between home and work after lunch” would be a common use I reckon.
I’ve emailed the RTA to alert them to it, let’s see how long I last.
March 26th, 2009 at 03:43 PM Was wondering how you were pinpointing the location of the accidents but then realised that it was just the suburbs and not the exact location.
March 27th, 2009 at 09:56 AM @marty. It's google doing the geoRSS, it gets it right over half the time.