"yeah but the council started many "smart city" visions"
Indeed - at least BusTracker works - and presumably no-one has to work out if it's cost effective (bit like the tram...)
There was also a (presumably expensive) site with maps of Edinburgh with all sorts of possible overlays (this was before Google got busy).
Unfortunately it only worked properly on PCs so I (and most schools) never got to use it much.
Went off-line after maybe a year.