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You may not be aware that every bus stop in the UK has a name. Certainly bus passengers will tend to happily travel without knowing the name their bus stop, however bus stop names are a useful bit of data, typically forming part of transport application search result displays or timetable displays. We made an...
Back in December we introduced our new endpoint called “places”. In this tutorial we will create a web page with javascript to do a call to that. Since it allows us to do a textual search, and since it’s Easter…. let’s search for “Eggs” This tutorial is more about web development, and less about TransportAPI,...
We added a feature to our journey planning API: this automatically selects the most appropriate service provider depending on whether the journey is within, or outside of, London. “Journey Planning” involves you specifying a “from” and a “to” location to receive back journey details including multiple alternatives, which may make use of multiple means of...
We’d like to wish all our API users…
Our new “Places” endpoint takes millions of location data points (“places”) from across the UK and makes them searchable. We’ve been testing the Places endpoint for a few months now and we’re excited to share the results with you. The geocoded data points it includes are: 500k Bus, train, tube, coach stops from the Traveline National Dataset...
developer.transportapi.com is the gateway for developers to begin using our API. This part of our website has recently undergone a bit of a refresh. We hope you like the style makeover, but there’s a couple of concrete improvements particularly for the benefit of new developers as they sign-up: Sign up with a github account If...
There are over 16,800 bus routes in the UK and we are launching a new feature in TransportAPI.com that will enable you to map the precise geometry of every single bus route. Currently many bus companies and local authorities have to draw out route shapes and maps one at a time. They do this using...
IBM held a “datapalooza” event at skills matter last month. This was during the wimbledon tournament (before Andy Murray had taken the title!) and the event was a mashup of various data related things in and around the IBM ecosystem, with a wimbledon spin on it! I was invited to show TransportAPI and so talked...
