Yes, ChatGPT has a large user base, but Malta's not a particularly meaningful datapoint in terms of the population size.

I have bad news for you about the writings of most Ph.D.s and University professors...

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Sovereignity is quite important at a national level

100% agree. I think it's great that transit agencies have full control over the residency and sovereignty of their data, and that they have full visibility into where and to whom that data is flowing.

Given your history of working on transit projects, if you had any free time and wanted to pitch in, your help would be greatly appreciated! https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/onebusaway/contrib...

1. The Puget Sound region, where a regional transit authority, Sound Transit, currently maintains their own OBA servers on behalf of a dozen individual transit agencies. Sound Transit piggybacks on our official OBA apps which you can find in the Play and App Stores. The official apps also work in 10 other cities across the US. This is the ideal for us—and transit riders, imho, and similar to what you see with apps like Citymapper or Transit.

2. New York City, where MTA runs their own OBA servers that power their own branded app and realtime signage throughout the five boroughs.

3. UC San Diego, where the university is using OBACloud to power real time transit information systems for students on campus.

4. Republic of Cyprus and Malaysia (yes the entire countries), where enterprising individual developers have set up their own OBA servers to power realtime transit information systems for their fellow citizens.

The underlying OBA server provides a rich set of REST APIs that make it much easier to build a public transit app than using raw GTFS and GTFS-RT data: https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/where/methods

We also have SDKs for many major languages so that agencies and independent developers can build their own apps on top of OBA servers without having to fiddle around with the intricacies of our APIs. https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/sdk

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Integration with Google Maps is important, and a "yes and" solution. I think there's a lot of value in having public transit-focused apps, especially ones that don't have advertising or questionable privacy issues.

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edit: I noticed you're in Argentina. The Ministry of Transportation maintains its own white label version of OBA called Cuando Subo. https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sube/cuandosubo

https://onebusawaycloud.com/

It’s a project of the non profit Open Transit Software Foundation that we’re using to fund our other initiatives, like bringing realtime transit information to billions of people around the world.

All of this depends on a bunch of really cool open source projects we’re building, like Maglev, a Golang server that can power realtime transit apps. I wrote up a blog post explaining how to set it up here: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/setting-up...

We’re always looking for volunteers, especially non-engineers. https://ossvolunteers.com/organizations/open-transit-softwar...

"every Costco shopper has a certain item or two they’re compelled to purchase on each visit"

Organic, single-serving guacamole and Magic Spoon cereal for me.

My toddler is obsessed with their mammoth two dollar slices of cheese pizza and talks constantly about wanting to go to Costco to have pizza with his little bestie.