Category Archives: hbus

Updates on my ridiculous pet projects

Posted on September 29, 2011 by William Lachance

1. As you may or may not have noticed, hbus.ca has been down for the past few weeks. Halifax updated the data but I didn’t have a chance to update it. Well, I finally did, and hbus is now up … Continue reading →

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Routez opensourced

Posted on April 19, 2011 by William Lachance

Just a quick note to say that I just opensourced the software behind hbus.ca, nicknamed “Routez” under the Affero GPL. You can get the code on github. For those new to the project, hbus.ca is a generic trip planning / … Continue reading →

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Google Transit Halifax is down (but hbus and Transit to Go are still up)

Posted on August 29, 2010 by William Lachance

Due to some schedule adjustments, it appears as if Metro Transit’s Google Transit is temporarily out of service while they wait for Google to process their new transit feed. However, fear not! Unlike Google, obsessive compulsive computer programmer William Lachance … Continue reading →

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hbus is back

Posted on May 24, 2010 by William Lachance

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 … Continue reading →

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Oh, the lines! And some help for Edmonton.

Posted on April 10, 2010 by William Lachance

A productive day on the transit development front. Finished up a few big features related to hbus.ca and Transit to Go: Sped up the graph and database generation by an order of magnitude. Not too exciting from a user perspective, … Continue reading →

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Projects for 2010

Posted on January 2, 2010 by William Lachance

Hurrah, 2010 is upon us! One new years resolution I have set for myself is to blog more about what I’m working on. I’ve learned over the last year that the audience of people who care about your projects in … Continue reading →

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Creating a google transit feed for fun and profit

Posted on April 23, 2009 by William Lachance

People frequently ask me how I manage to collect and input the data that is used by hbus.ca, given Metro Transit’s intransigence. The “bike and GPS” angle is well known by now, but what about the rest of the process? … Continue reading →

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hbus.ca and thoughts about crowdsourcing

Posted on March 25, 2009 by William Lachance

So I opened up my baby, hbus.ca, to the public last week (though traffic only really started to pick up yesterday, after a positive article in the daily news). This site, a trip planner for the Halifax Regional Municipality, was … Continue reading →

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