Geekness - closer to the world » stis http://cocaman.ch/wp Geeky at the Lake of Zurich Tue, 08 May 2012 17:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 STIS Update and News http://cocaman.ch/wp/2009/10/stis-update-and-news/ http://cocaman.ch/wp/2009/10/stis-update-and-news/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:44:56 +0000 CoCaman http://cocaman.ch/wp/?p=2153 In case you are familiar with my projects or are a Swiss public transportation traveler with a Twitter account, you might have heard of my SBB Train Information System on Twitter.

In the past couple of weeks a lot of changed behind the scenes. Jürg Stuker from namics mentioned the system to some employees at the Swiss postal service “Die Post” in a talk he gave. Thank you for that Jürg. Beside that quiet a lot of SBB employees have started following the tweets. Some are managers for offline and online media, others are IT guys. Good to see that the SBB is interested in the service. Maybe now we can finally talk about an API or anything like that. Not only for STIS, but also for Transport or other systems out there.

Besides that I have also added a few new stations. They are:

With so many different accounts you can follow I have create a new list on Twitter. Just subscribe to my sbb-bots list and you see all bots or can follow them individually.

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Link to github: https://github.com/cocaman/stis/
Informatin page: http://cocaman.github.com/stis
Clone command: git://github.com/cocaman/stis.git

Oh, and it’s all @kung_foo‘s fault ;-)

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]]> http://cocaman.ch/wp/2009/06/sbb-train-information-system-github/feed/ 0 Twitter Tool: SBB Train Information System (STIS) http://cocaman.ch/wp/2008/02/twitter-tool-sbb-train-information-system-stis/ http://cocaman.ch/wp/2008/02/twitter-tool-sbb-train-information-system-stis/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:46:45 +0000 CoCaman http://cocaman.ch/wp/2008/02/twitter-tool-sbb-train-information-system-stis/ Please also read follow ups to this post with the tag “stis”.
More stations available: STIS Update and News from October 31st 2009

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I always wanted to create a little (maybe even useful) Twitter tool with their API. I finally managed to create it and I named it “SBB Train Information System” or STIS for short. It is more like a proof of concept and it can be shut down by anybody anytime. I do not have any rights or permissions to use the SBB train data, but I hope they will never see it or if they see it, like it ;-) .

What is this for, you might ask. Basically it checks the SBB website for any train delays in one of these stations: Basel, Chur, Jona, Rapperswil and Zurich. Then it will post delays or additional information (cancellation, delay time and so on) to Twitter. From there you can “follow” any of the stations and forward those updates to your mobile phone or Instant Messenger client. Now you always know if any train from a station is delayed.
It is not yet perfect, but I keep improving it and I am also looking for ideas or feedback. Please leave a comment or drop me an email if you have an idea or opinion.

Twitter Feeds:

SBB Basel SBB Chur SBB Jona SBB Rapperswil SBB Zürich

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