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...)

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Sadly...

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

The bike page hasn't been Safari-compliant in quite a while, and looks really obviously broken on my machine. Boo! (I feel like it once worked in simpler times.) Whereas the bus map seems to mostly work fine, except I can't quite get "highlight routes near a location" to work right (and of course it's terribly slow due to all that data being loaded).

I wonder if there's a way to make the data load lazily---maybe put the data for each route in a separate file and somehow slurp it in when a given route is displayed. But my JavaScript is basically non-existent, so...