By @edent · api eink nook rail tfl · 2 comments · 1,150 words · read ~492 times.
Last year, I blogged about how I turned an old eReader into an Information Screen. I've since updated the display to show me three different sets of transport information. At a glance, I can see the next bus, whether there are delays on the Elizabeth Line, and if my regular trains are running. Here's how […]
Continue reading →By @edent · map Open Data tfl tube · 4 comments · 400 words · read ~6,525 times.
Force Directed Graphs of the London Underground have been done many times before - but I think I'm the first person to add the new Elizabeth Line (CrossRail). I've also created a JSON graph of all of London's rail services - including DLR, Trams, C2C, ThamesLink etc. Demo Play with it yourself Grab the code […]
Continue reading →By @edent · pcn tfl ulez · 500 words · read ~240 times.
Another middle-class rant about an easily solved problem. Or, how a software bug nearly cost me £80. Things you should know... London has a Congestion Zone. You have to pay £11 to drive through it. If you have an EV (Electric Vehicle), you don't have to pay the Congestion Charge. Easy, right? Not quite. In […]
Continue reading →By @edent · art data NaBloPoMo python tfl wikipedia · 15 comments · 2,500 words · read ~7,347 times.
One of my favourite works of art is The Great Bear by Simon Patterson. At first glance, it appears to be a normal London Tube map. But look closer... Cool! But there is something about it which has always bothered me. Each Tube line represents a theme - therefore, a station at the intersection of […]
Continue reading →By @edent · london qr statistics stats tfl · 6 comments · 350 words · read ~506 times.
At the start of 2012, I revealed how many scans TfL's QR campaign was getting. A lot of comments on Twitter & Google+ dismissed these results as a success. A typical response was: 70 scans a day? In a city of millions? Rubbish! This fails to address something that advertisers are conspicuously loathe to reveal […]
Continue reading →By @edent · london qr statistics stats tfl · 4 comments · 450 words · read ~1,702 times.
Last year, I suggested that TfL should use QR codes to point to their excellent mobile countdown service. Looks like someone was listening! I spotted this poster at a tube station. Nestled in the corner is a QR code pointing at the mobile bus countdown service! This is a close-to-perfect use of QR. Points to […]
Continue reading →By @edent · bus countdown Open Data qr tfl · 2 comments · 350 words · read ~1,026 times.
There are Nineteen thousand, five hundred bus stops in London! Each one of them is (eventually) going to be upgraded with a new real time bus countdown signs. If you've got an Internet capable phone, you can get real time information for your bus at http://m.countdown.tfl.gov.uk/. The service has a number of cool features, including […]
Continue reading →By @edent · advertising BSOD cbs crash linux microsoft tfl ThisIsBroken · 3 comments · 450 words · read ~691 times.
I wander around the world in a perpetual state of confusion. Why is the world the way it is? Why do people make bad decisions? Why - when there are so many better alternatives - do people choose the worst of all possible worlds? Rather than getting bogged down in philosophy, I refer to the […]
Continue reading →By @edent · sousveillance tfl · 12 comments · 500 words
Sousveillance (pronounced /suːˈveɪləns/, French pronunciation: [suvɛjɑ̃s]) as well as inverse surveillance are terms coined by Steve Mann to describe the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity,[1] typically by way of small portable or wearable recording devices that often stream continuous live video to the Internet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u804C65q_Jk When this […]
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