Hi there,

I'm a big fan of Google Transit. So much so that I spent the last few months developing an android app to serve transit data for consumption by mobile users. The effort was done as part of the Android Developer Challenge. If you're interested, you can get more info here: http://www.tranzit.ca/readme.pdf

Anyway, since dropping a bunch of google_tranzit.zip's onto a handheld device and telling it to go crazy isn't really an option, a huge part of the effort was put into mirroring the existing data available from the archived public data sources in a php/mysql back end, making it possible for a mobile app to make a OTA request like "give me all of the scheduled times for today's service on BART route 1 at stop 003" and get back a nice list of scheduled stops in JSON format.

Are there any plans open up the public data with a full API or web service? Regardless of the outcome of the Android Challenge, I hope to continue working on this, as it's something that I would use... That effort would be made so much easier if I didn't have to reinvent the wheel :) I'd love to take this from the simple 'service schedule/ notifications' stage to full blown trip planning...

Any information is greatly appreciated. Also, if I can be of any help in the effort, by all means - let me know. Cheers Todd