Twitter users will soon be able to tag their messages with geographic information and developers will be able to incorporate location data into new applications via a geolocation API.
The Sunday Times reports that smart phone applications are tracking the locations of their users and transmitting them to market research firms — often without the knowledge of the customer.
The automatic passenger counting system on Sound Transit’s Link light-rail line has begun malfunctioning, missing data some days and double-counting others.
Susan Bregman is editor of The Transit Wire. She has been a consultant on transit policy and planning for fifteen years and before that worked for the Boston Transportation Department. In 2004 she founded Oak Square Resources, LLC, which focuses on transit research, policy, and social media.