After a month long hiatus, I finally had a chance to get hbus.ca back into a working state. The big difference is that we’re now using the official HRM transit data. Lots more remains to be done to make this site competitive for 2010 (most of the recent work has been back-end infrastructure stuff), but at least it’s usable again.
Any ETA on open sourcing the hbus.ca infrastructure? I think I’ve got libroutez working… but it’s hard to be 100% sure without a proven graphical interface
Not too long… I’d say we’re perhaps a month out (going by my normal track record of attending to this stuff). The last remaining showstopper items that I can remember are:
1. Stripping out all the hbus advertising boilerplate, migrating it to something like Django CMS.
2. Adding documentation and licensing (mostly done already).
Unfortunately the infrastructure behind the site has a rather deep bias towards Canadian geodata, simply because that’s what I’ve been developing against. Getting the site working nicely in other locales is going to take additional work. However, that’s where things sit.