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		<title>&#8216;Nearest Tube&#8217; stop to become &#8216;Nearest Subway&#8217; in SF</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pritchard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BART]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cults]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MUNI]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British company acrossair is supposed to expand its &#8220;Nearest Tube&#8221; application for the iPhone 3GS &#8212; changed to &#8220;Nearest Subway&#8221; for the US market &#8212; to San Francisco today. The app uses GPS to overlay a subway map on the phone&#8217;s live video feed to tell users where the nearest station is. It should [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The British company <a hREF="http://www.acrossair.com/apps_nearesttube.htm" target="_window">acrossair</a> is supposed to expand its &#8220;Nearest Tube&#8221; application for the iPhone 3GS &#8212; changed to &#8220;Nearest Subway&#8221; for the US market &#8212; <a hREF="http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2009/07/10/10venturebeat-augmented-reality-subway-app-comes-to-ny-sf-74854.html" target="_window">to San Francisco today</a>. The app uses GPS to overlay a subway map on the phone&#8217;s live video feed to tell users where the nearest station is. </p>
<p>It should be a simple feat in San Francisco, which has only two subway lines. But checking the acrossair website shows information only for the London and <a hREF="http://www.acrossair.com/apps_newyorknearestsubway.htm" target="_window">New York</a> versions, and even those are said to be &#8220;launching as soon as Apple approves it!&#8221;</p>
<p><b>Update</b> a day later: Speaking of BART, <a hREF="http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/07/14/bart-a-national-leader-in-real-time-data-transparency-and-development/" target="_window">Streetsblog draws attention</a> to the transit system&#8217;s &#8220;data transparency,&#8221; meaning that it allows anyone to use live data from its train control system to build applications, and lists the resulting applications <a href="http://www.bart.gov/schedules/developers/appcenter.aspx" target="_window">on its website</a>.</p>
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