Stops – The Bus Schedule Database for Palm OS Handhelds may be a useful stopgap for the apparent lack of a Seattle-based resource publishing Metro schedules in a palm-readable format.
C’mon, Metro! You already do a great job with getting the data online. Give us some RSS or Atom or something that can get into an AvantGo channel, at least!
Grumble.
Jonh appears to have already written a scraper, but it’s a personal tool and oriented to PDF.
QuickTrip may also be a bit less daunting to set up and use than Stops, I think.
Still, what I really need, I suppose, is a table-viewing application for my decrepit old Vx.
I toyed with scraping Metro’s site a while back, and it proved unusually daunting (because there was no standardized output; different route schedules were rendered different ways.) This led me to MyBus, but MyBus is geared toward WAP-enabled phones and not Palm format, which isn’t very useful for a Handspring Visor. Of course, I stopped using my Visor shortly thereafter anyway…