MyTTC.ca is a community effort to give everyone free, open access to a better quality of transit information in Toronto. Since the first TransitCamp in 2007, Kevin Branigan and I have been working to re-build our own set of TTC data, as well as exploring different ways to visualize, display and distribute it. MyTTC.ca is, at least in part, how we’re expressing that data on the web.

The data available from the TTC was, well, a little lacking in both quality and quantity. With fewer than 20% of the stops available and a staggering error rate on the TTC site (both new and old), Kevin and I reasoned that we’d need to build our own data set if we were going to do anything useful with it. Fortunately, we were able to find just enough good data to do just that, and with that data at our disposal we finally had the stable base we needed to build fun and useful applications. (more…)