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

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I like having different colors for the different routes, but some of them were unreadable because black printing doesn't show up well on dark blue backgrounds, for instance.

Firefox also complained about slowness, but when I told it to keep going, it was ok.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Hee, I tried putting them in semi-transparent, but grey text on lighter grey blue is not any more readable. :)

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

There! The boxes are ligther! :)

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I still find it a little difficult to read the darkest blues, but it's much better than before. Yay!