Cool LA Metro Rail Ridership Visualization (and developer.metro.net news too)

LA Metro Ridership

(via reddit/LosAngeles - Metro Rail Network Ridership - class project from last spring I've wanted to show off for awhile (crossposting from dataisbeautiful))

Also of note:

http://developer.metro.net/

APIs / Feeds / Data

• Realtime API
• Trip Planner Information
• GTFS Data
• GIS Data
• Bikeways Data

Developer Resources

Welcome to Metro’s developer site – this is a website for technical individuals and entities who are using transportation and multi-modal data in interesting ways. Since first releasing our transit data in the summer of 2009, numerous developers have incorporated our data into their applications — you can see a list of  featured applications here.

New Items!

• Metro’s Developer Challenge — Winning entries selected! (added June 2011)
• Metro Realtime API — real time arrivals in JSON, JSON-P, and XML (added March 2011)
• Revised Terms and Conditions, specifically Section 2 (added Jan 2011)
• We’ve added notifications/alerts to the GTFS, GIS, and Bikeways pages — sign up and get alerts when this information changes. (added Jan 2011)
• Metro Bikeways Data (added Dec 2010)

Getting Started

Become a member: Joining is FREE and will allow you to comment and have direct communication with our developers responsible for each data sets.

Get an API Key: You must have a valid API Key to utilize the Trip Planner Information Feed. You will be assigned a key at registration. Check your profile page to retrieve your API key.

Read the Policies: Please familiarize yourself with our Terms and Conditions, and Policies for using the various data and this website.

Read the Trip Planner Information Feed documentation: The web services offers data from 65+ Southern California transit agencies.

Read the FAQ: Questions about this site, the data or tools needed to utilize the data.