NextBus vehicle locations
So, the Mainline route ID stored in the tag attribute is simply 1
according to these results. Now, we have all the information that we need to track buses along the LA Metro route 2.
There is only one more required parameter called t
, that is, milliseconds since the 1970 Epoch date (January 1, 1970, at midnight UTC). The epoch date is simply a computer standard used by machines to track time. The easiest thing to do in the NextBus API is to specify 0
for this value that returns data for the last 15 minutes.
There is an optional direction tag that allows you to specify a terminating bus stop in case a route has multiple buses running the route in opposite directions. If we don't specify this, the API will return the first ...
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