onebusaway-android

I work on a suite of open source public transit software projects, collectively called OneBusAway (or OBA). The software is used by millions of transit riders every day around the world, including in New York City, the Seattle area, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. Through the non-profit that collectively owns OBA, I've been working on a managed services offering to help transit agencies adopt the software, which has historically been beloved by users, but a real pain to set up and maintain. The software, cleverly named OBA Cloud, turns what used to require a month-long engagement with a transit consulting firm into a 15 minute, wizard-driven process. The best part is that since all of the software is free and open source, a transit agency that decides they love OBA but wants to be locked back into an expensive contract can always ask a co

Google offers Volume pricing for the Geocoder service above 500,000 monthly requests. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/u... The geocoding API is also the most expensive at $5/1000req normally. I think this is the Geocoding code? https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android/blob/8eeda8...

I'm not sure what API they are using. The cheapest Places SDK API call is a plain autocomplete and it's still $2.27 per thousand requests. https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/. They say it would cost $1000/mo, but then there are 2.3 million requests in the past 30 days, which would be $5221/mo using the $2.27 price. I guess there could be a volume discount but they don't mention it. This is the code, not particularly helpful: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android/blob/7b63b3...

Psst, Seattle also has a reliable, free, and open source pair of apps for knowing where you bus is and when it’ll arrive. These apps are built and maintained entirely by volunteers. (In the case of iOS, this is basically just me.) If you have any background in iOS or Android development and want to help improve your own commute in Seattle, come check out our projects and pick up a bug or two. Hundreds of thousands of people will thank you for it. iOS: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-iphone/ Android: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android Come talk to us on Slack: https://onebusaway.herokuapp.com/

Nobody treats you like a human being if you're in tech. They treat you like a wallet Weird, I never have this experience. Where do you live? Where do you hang out? Also, I can tell you from personal experience that people will treat you like a hero[1] if you tell them that you work on OneBusAway, so please help out on one of these all-volunteer projects: iOS: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-iphone Android: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android [1] Unless they're Route 8 commuters.