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bdon.org
Personal blog · bdon.org · on HN as bdondataweb
bdon.org is a personal blog at bdon.org about data and web. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Show HN: San Francisco MUNI Transit Delays, Visualized”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post about wanting Caltrain to publish raw train data. The one comment points to NextBus's public XML feed as a source of transit data for transit-data projects, without judging the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: San Francisco MUNI Transit Delays, Visualized2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-04
- Getting to the bottom of web map performance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-11
- Should web maps be centralized services?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-21
What Hacker News says?
Here is one for Brooklyn: http://bklynr.com/block-by-block-brooklyns-past-and-present/ I published some instructions on how to generate such a map using the recently released PLUTO data: http://bdon.org/2013/06/29/working-with-pluto-and-pad/ To the best of my knowledge, San Francisco doesn't have a public building age dataset. There is a building footprint dataset on https://data.sfgov.org/ , but the quality of the…
Comment linking /2013/06/29/working-with-pluto-and-pad/
on “9,866,539 buildings in the Netherlands, shaded according to year of construction”Submitted Getting to the bottom of web map performance as a story · 104 points
HN discussionYou can check out something similar in 3D here (needs WebGL): http://bdon.org/bicycle.html
Comment linking /bicycle.html
on “Show HN: Flattest Route - A web app to help you avoid hills in SF”Submitted Show HN: 1,053,713 buildings in New York City, shaded by year of construction as a story · 96 points
HN discussionIf you're still interested in doing Muni data mining, you'll probably be interested in this: http://www.nextbus.com/xmlFeedDocs/NextBusXMLFeed.pdf NextBus is the source of bus position and predicted arrival times for MUNI, and appears to be the same for many other transit agencies. I can verify that (as of three minutes ago) it's still returning reasonable data. However, if you're looking for the SFMTA schedule [0],…
Comment linking /transit/
on “I'd like Caltrain to publish raw train data”Submitted Show HN: San Francisco MUNI Transit Delays, Visualized as a story · 86 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Visualizing transit delays in real time for SF MUNI as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should web maps be centralized services? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantifying consumption behaviors of over 15,000 rap songs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting to the bottom of web map performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Should web maps be centralized services? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion