City bus schedule website (Re: Guido on GPL)

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 12:03:23PM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
> When was the last time that something constructive was generated on this list. I
> think of a few:
> 
> 	- Trying to get something done about the LI website.
> 
> 	- Starting a localisation project for Linux Apps
> 
> 	- Start a campaign to get Linux into schools
> 
> But no, ppl here are more worried about BSD vs GPL, about proving themselves
> most knowledgable about the evils of MS and genarlly waffling around without
> _doing_ anything.
> 
> This sucks.

Me too :)

I was thinking of writing some server side software  and hosting it on my
box. The intent is to create a searchable database of local bus service
in major cities. Sort of like:

http://www.transitinfo.org/Sched/AC/maps.html

Have people done this already ? (I know it exists for trains and
air travel as static HTML pages).

Shouldn't be very hard to write the software and it should be very
useful to ordinary people. But I think getting the data would be a
problem. Suggestions ? 

I'm planning to use jakarta-tomcat + postgresql for this.

	-Arun