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A library of GTFS Realtime translators converts transit data from various formats into the GTFS Realtime standard. It is designed for developers and transit agencies working with public transportation information… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A library of GTFS Realtime translators (for transit data) launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    This was something I built while trying to look for housing in Toronto that was decently transit-accessible to my office while still cheap. The backend is written in Rust. It parses public GTFS data from transit agencies and performs a simple heuristics-based BFS on the bus lines to calculate how long to reach all points in a city. The frontend uses React and Mapbox GL to render each individual road segment based on how long it takes to reach. This project was a great excuse to learn Rust, deployments, and mapping. The source code is here if you are interested:…

    2023 · map.henryn.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Save $5 by buying both books together!Book 1 - The Definitive Guide to GTFSLearn all about the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and how to consume open public transportation data, including:All about the structure of a GTFS feedHow to import a GTFS feed to an SQL database and perform querie

    2014 · gtfsbook.com · its alternatives →

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    Open data platform aggregating GTFS and GTFS Realtime data.

    2021 · transit.land · its alternatives →

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    Tighter instruction adherence in speech agents

    Feb 2026 · developers.openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Talo▲864

    Real-time AI voice translator for video-calls

    2025 · taloai.com · its alternatives →

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    Transit▲123

    Real-time transit data and a bot to help you commute

    2016 · transitapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Translate languages in real-time on your mobile phone

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Comprehensive information about public transit systems worldwide.

    Mar 2026 · publictransit.systems · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! Today I'm launching OpenTimes, a free database of roughly 150 billion pre-computed, point-to-point travel times between United States Census geographies. In addition to letting you visualize travel isochrones on the homepage, OpenTimes also lets you download massive amounts of travel time data for free and with no limits. The primary goal here is to enable research and fill a gap I noticed in the open-source spatial ecosystem. Researchers (social scientists, economists, etc.) use large travel time matrices to quantify things like access to healthcare, but they often end up paying…

    2025 · opentimes.org · its alternatives →

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    A data aware UI components library for building realtime maps - reactivemaps/README.md at master · appbaseio/reactivemaps

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    REST API for public transportation data

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    kepler.gl▲116

    Uber's geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets

    2018 · kepler.gl · its alternatives →

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    Simulate anything on a map from a text prompt -- and conduct risk analysis against LiveUA map's global realtime data points from social media and news sources. I trained a GPT-2-size model on historical incident data used to predict things that will go wrong. As historian Benjamin Breen mentions, the leading language models are good historians, so the application will simulate historical events pretty well also. I include a Multi-Agent RL Urban Mobility model in progress displayed on the map as small white cubes representing traffic and pedestrians. Around SF, it uses real census data and…

    2025 · mused.com · its alternatives →

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    A flexible GraphQL client and server library that can be used to power realtime applications. - tjmehta/primus-graphql

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    As a side project I built Sydney Transit Graph - a visualisation of real-time Sydney bus congestion. Each line on the graph (a Marey chart) represents a bus completing its route (percentage) over time.

    2022 · jakecoppinger.com · its alternatives →

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    Any Scenario Live Translator

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Slava Akhmechet schools us on RethinkDB and the realtime web

    2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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    Broadcast, Presence, and Postgres Changes via WebSockets - supabase/realtime

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GT4T▲3

    GT4T is translators' R2-D2, their best pal in modern times.

    2020 · gt4t.net · its alternatives →

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    Browser-based GTFS viewer for routes, stops & schedules

    Apr 2026 · transit-lens.com · its alternatives →

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    An open source mapping and routing tool

    2016 · transit.land · its alternatives →

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    This is a demo of a family of libraries intended to make it easy to build local-first, real-time applications for mobile, desktop and the web using CRDTs. It currently has support for using Sqlite, PostgreSQL or a plain old record store (Hive) as data storage backend. https://github.com/cachapa/crdt There's also a websocket sync layer that transparently handles the connection and delta changesets between participants. https://github.com/cachapa/crdt_sync

    2023 · draw.cachapa.net · its alternatives →

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    Here you can find some insights into GitHub real-time contribution, including pull request events grouped by programming languages, top 5 active repositories and developers last 24 hours.

    2022 · live.ossinsight.io · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, we’re open sourcing a new library called Quix Streams (https://github.com/quixio/quix-streams)—a high-performance Python and C# library that processes time-series telemetry data with message broker such as Apache Kafka, instead of a database. We’re a team of engineers who all worked together at the Formula 1 McLaren pit wall. We struggled to get wanted we wanted out of existing stream processing tech, so we built our own platform called Quix. Although our original requirements were pretty niche (process over 60k data points per second), our solution is designed…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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