Welcome to november!
I have an update on the Bus Tracker concept mentioned earlier. It appears that Google have begun the push to integrate public transport timetable data into their maps application. I came across the Google transit feed specifications when checking through the google code pages, and found a fairly comprehensive explanation of what data Google needs to integrate this as an interactive/navigable map.
It’s not too hard to see that the data needed to implement something like this will not be the hardest to track down (thanks again in part to earlier tools provided by Google) and some others can simply be arbitrarily entered (such as stop descriptors or route labels etc.).
This does not make life completely easy for the project in mind, but it does point yet again to a workable (if at first static) solution which could be implemented with only a minimal dose of pain.
