DC Resident Develops New Bus App
BusTrack DC went live on the Apple app store at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
DC resident Jason Rosenbaum created his own metro bus tracking app after the Nextbus app stopped working in December. BusTrack DC is now available for free download in the Apple iTunes store. "I was looking for a replacement for the app that stopped working," Rosenbaum told Patch. "I built this because I use this app every day," he added. The new app relies on a public feed of GPS data that WMATA publishes. It acts as an interface to allow your phone to use that data in a meaningful way. Rosenbaum described the key features in an email: The app is free and open source, so other programmers can help create copies for Android and Blackberry and improve on what Rosenbaum created. "I’m not an app developer. This is my first app," he said. "I …
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Jenni Pompi
6:05 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
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