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Dev tools · May 21, 2011

TOTransit.ca - Toronto Streetcars Live On a Map (Weekend Project)

Link: http://totransit.ca I made this on a weekend back in April. My motivation was to create something I would find useful, and to utilize data provided by Toronto Open Data (http://toronto.ca/open). The app uses the NextBus API to get live data on streetcar positions. A small PHP script converts the XML to JSON format, but the bulk of the app is Javascript. Thanks to the Google Maps API, the app works nicely on both desktop browsers and mobile. I find that a map view works well for many different data sets, so I have started an effort to create a generic "on a map" boilerplate. This is a…

TOTransit.ca - Toronto Streetcars Live On a Map (Weekend Project) launched on May 21, 2011 with 5 votes, #85 of 217 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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What it does

See when the next streetcars are coming, and watch them move on a map in real-time. Desktop and mobile friendly!

In the maker’s words, at launch

Link: http://totransit.ca I made this on a weekend back in April. My motivation was to create something I would find useful, and to utilize data provided by Toronto Open Data (http://toronto.ca/open). The app uses the NextBus API to get live data on streetcar positions. A small PHP script converts the XML to JSON…

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