Bus Map

[firstfrost]

I've been playing around with the Google Maps API and teaching myself Javascript (Javascript Lesson One: "there is no here here"), and have proof-of-concept (that is, the routes through 100) for an MBTA bus map (because I never know where any of the busses go).

http://web.mit.edu/boojum/www/Map/

I find that I have really no particular knack for nice-looking UI, so if anyone has suggestions (or CSS files!) let me know.

As far as the actual functionality goes, bug reports and suggestions also welcome. (I can't figure out a good way to allow hitting return to work for the text entry fields without triggering a page reload...)

Comments

[jadia.livejournal.com]

Hm. It made my mozilla complain that it had a script that made it run slowly, so I didn't actually let it load. It sounds interesting, though!

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does take a little while to load because it has to pre-load all the data. I don't know enough javascript yet to get past that. :-\
(It should be safe to let it run and then kill the tab after you're done, though; I checked it for memory leaks fairly recently and it didn't seem to have any).