Ideas
my Commute
[This has now been built as a working prototype]
(Insipired by forthcoming change of commute from one tube, to one tube, two overground trains and a bus)
Personalised travel news for your route to work. Looking at the travel feeds, it seems different overground train routes have different ID codes in the XML, so would just be a case of picking the right bits out of the XML.
Obviously could be modular so your personal details could be made up of overground rail, tube, roads or whatever. If you wanted to be really fancy, you could add in Jamcams in somehow.
Useful and not particularly difficult - just need to work out the different routes from the XML(!) as a basic prototype, and if really keen, scope for a config system and so on. Will build basic prototype if you're /really/ lucky :)
- 17 Feb 2005 03:42 PM
Just for your information:
the
<transport_service_identifier service_id="2B05"/>
gives the head code which identifies a particular service on the rail network.
It normally stays the same for a service on consecutive days, however it is not necessarily unique across operators. Usually though, you are ok to assume that the 2B05 refers to the 13:18 service from Edinburgh to Bathgate.
The
<public_transport_information message_id="459711" />
is the id tag of a specific incident. It will remain the same whenever that incident is updated (reflected by an incremented version_number). When the version_number=255, then the incident has cleared.
I feel it will be quite a task to identify all the routes from the TPEGML as we don't receive particularly good information from some operators. It may be possible to hack the live timetables on nationalrail.co.uk to get the route information though.