Listers,
We have worked with the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind to present
additional features at each of the Muni stops in the city on The
BrailleNote, Braille Sense and Windows PC versions of Sendero GPS and maps.
There are about 2800 stops in the database.
Thus far, the Portland Oregon data has been the only one where lots of
details are presented. We worked with them to do this several years ago.
Now, in San Francisco, you can hear more about the exact location of the
stop, whether there is a bench or a shelter, what is the length of the stop
so you know how many busses may line up there; is it on an island or a curb,
on the surface or underground and what are all the bus numbers stopping at
that location. Even if you don't live in San Francisco, you might want to
check out how this works.
If you had a California San Francisco Muni file already, please delete that
one and download the new one that has Lighthouse/Muni in the file name.
There are around 20 GTFS files list in California alone. If you haven't
checked, see if your city file is in the list. They are sorted by state and
country.
We will also be publishing a short getting started document to help
inexperienced public transit users to understand what all the stop details
mean, nearside, farside, inbound, outbound and so forth.
Thanks to those of you who filled out the survey and those who worked with
us testing the stop data.
Mike
Michael May, CEO
Sendero Group, Davis California
Developers of accessible GPS
Sendero Phone: 888-757-6810, extension 101
Home Office: 530-757-6900
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