A Google Maps mashup with real-time bus information from COTA.
Visit https://joeshaw.org/cota-bus to see it in action.
This draws heavily from my MBTA mashup from 2009. The MBTA provides a JSON API which removes the need for any server side components, but COTA's real-time data is only available via GTFS-realtime, a protobuf-based API. A Go server takes the (static, occasionally updated) GTFS data for COTA and updates it with periodic fetches of the GTFS-realtime data.
Use the tools/route-kml.go utility to regenerate the KML.
If the gtfs-realtime.proto file is updated, regenerate the protobuf
with go generate. Make sure gogoprotobuf is installed.
This module is pulled into my blog via git submodules.
The server is super hacky, but it was written so that it could conceivably be generalized to any transit system that uses GTFS-realtime.