The StopFinder team is going to be at TransitCamp on Saturday, and we’re looking forward to contributing to the event in whatever way we can.
One of our main topics of interest is obviously the idea of unifying and presenting transit and driving information in order to help people make effective decisions about transportation. However, there are tons of other ideas being tossed around that are extremely interesting to us as well, so it promises to be a great time!
For those of you who are attending — we’ll see you there!
StopFinder has officially been live for eight hours now, and we’re already getting lots of great feedback from people. Thanks to all who’ve gotten in contact with us!
I was asked today about the concrete ways in which StopFinder is going to help improve mobility in Toronto. I have multiple answers to this question, but here’s a really obvious one.
I discovered Bern Grush’s blog this morning through the metronauts website, and saw that he had posted this Time Magazine article on traffic congestion. In a survey of a gridlocked area of New York, 45% of drivers interviewed stated that they were on the road because they were looking for a parking spot. Now, if you do some homework before you leave the house, we feel like you’re much more likely to quickly find a spot when you arrive, yes?
Before StopFinder came along, there really wasn’t an especially good way of finding a Toronto parking lot on the web. With StopFinder, you can find one in less than a handful of seconds. So, now you have no excuse 
And that’s one simple way in which we think StopFinder is going to help out.
Here you will find the latest news and updates about what we’re doing with StopFinder.
Also, for the techies in the audience, we’ll be posting some articles and how-tos about the technologies and techniques used to build StopFinder.
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