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Voting Begins for New York City's BigApps 2.0
The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has announced the opening of public voting for the NYC BigApps 2.0 Competition. The big apple has wasted no time in following last year's successful competition with 350 datasets from over 40 agencies. From the looks of the apps, the NYC tech community is already fired up about the competition.
02-11-2011
New York City Touts Its API on Subway Advertisements
Riders on New York City subways are subject to all sorts of sights. For several months, that has included prominent advertisements for the MTA API, the developer program of New York City's transit company. The ad (pictured below) includes the headline, "Our apps are whiz kid certified."
02-03-2011
MapQuest Launches International Bike Routing API on Open Data
Online mapping and directions innovator MapQuest has been building new web services on top of data from the publicly-editable OpenStreetMap project since the company announced a new open platform initiative in August. Now MapQuest has a new addition to its family of open data–based services, bike routes:
11-15-2010
CycleStreets Brings Bicycle Journey Planning to the UK
Cycling in the UK is not only a popular past time but and also a real commuting choice. The UK has numerous defined cycle routes and many towns and cities have designated cycling lanes and more recently London introduced a cycling scheme fondly referred to as Boris' Bikes after the current Mayor of London. Since more and more people are using a bicycle as a preferred method of transport, and with cyclists having a different selection of routes, on top of the ordinary street network, than alternative transportation methods, it makes sense for there to be a need for a bicycle journey planning web application and API.
10-18-2010
Travelport Prepares Universal API for Travel Industry
Travel information service, Travelport is about to release what many are calling a "game-changing" Universal API. The new API hopes to make tons of information more easily available to travel agents and travel-related companies by funneling several information sources into one, all encompassing, API.
09-17-2010
Bed Bug Mashup Lets You Find a Good Night's Sleep
Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite. This is a cute saying if you have never had the misfortune of actually letting the bed bugs bite. But a quick Google image search shows that these little critters are no fun at all. A Yahoo Maps mashup is trying to help you find them before they get you.
09-08-2010
DC Metro Gets a Transit API
As a DC-area resident, I've been one of many local developers saying that the DC Metro needs some sort of API. If anything, just to be able to build or integrate transit routes into existing apps. The wait appears over and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority now has an API.
08-30-2010
Best New Mashups: Point A to Point B
We have mashups to help us figure out where we want to go, the best way to get there, and then what's the coolest stuff to do when we get there. One thing that's often overlooked is how much it'll cost us to get from point A to point B.
08-25-2010
Real World Mashup Connects Bike to iPhone, Location
A new bicycle wheel prototype is connecting the non-technical, everyday world to the Web. The Copenhagen Wheel attaches to an ordinary bike and helps its owner collect fitness and location data. From an iPhone, the rider can also see traffic and polution information and share their own data with friends. This real world mashup is one of many we're bound to start seeing released as we make our move toward living in the future.
08-18-2010
Google To Host First Ever Transit Developer Unconference in NYC
Once the largest transit agency without open data, New York City's MTA embraced developers by making its data feed available to all. Now it's going a step further by organizing an unconference for developers. Further, the event will be hosted at the New York offices of Google, a long supporter of open transit data.
04-27-2010
Is Your Flight Going to be Late? Get a Prediction From the New FlightCaster API
Have you had to pick someone up from the airport only to end-up doing several laps of the airport because the flight was late? This sort of setback due to arrival delays is one of those modern day inconveniences that FlightCaster and their FlightCaster API hope to eliminate.
03-08-2010
NextStop's Next Step? A Travel Guide API
NextStop helps you discover things to do and places to go. And now you can include NextStop content in your website using the NextStop API to provide the same recommendations to your users.
11-17-2009
Orbitz Uses Street View: Another Sign That Mashups Are Serious
The travel site Orbitz has partnered with Google to show a virtual walking tour of the neighborhood around a hotel. You and I know it as the Street View API, part of Google Maps (our Google Maps API profile).
09-01-2009
Microsoft Virtual Earth Gets a 3D Flight Simulator
Developer Richard Brundritt has created a new Flight Simulator plugin for Microsoft Virtual Earth (our Virtual Earth API profile) that uses the VE3D map control to provide a very cool user experience.By leveraging the 3D API, Richard has managed to create the first flight simulation experience
03-26-2009
The Unofficial Chicago Transit Authority API
Chicago commuters just got a new resource that may lead to more helpful mashups: the Chicago Transit Authority Bus Tracker API. As recently announced, the API provides capability for developers to get bus routes and schedules, bus stop and arrival predictions, and more. Note that the API is not affiliated with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA); rather, it was developed and is maintained by Harper Reed, who says the CTA has been "amazingly cool with all of this." In announcing the API, Harper wrote:
12-08-2008