Thought this might be of interest... for anyone riding rickshaws any time soon...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laura Newman <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:05 PM Subject: [OKFN-IN] Building a map to show autorickshaw fares To: [email protected], [email protected] Cc: Jayesh Gohel <[email protected]> Hi all, Thought you might be interested in the following post... Jayesh has built a map which allows you to calculate how much an autorickshaw ride should cost! Hopefully a blog on how he worked with the data will be following shortly - keep an eye out for it. Thanks Jayesh, this is great to see! Laura ========== Hello School of Data, Recently I read this blog post by Nigel Babu on the Salary converter that he built. And since you asked for a data-wrangling-experience, here's one that I have built. Well, this one does not crunch a lot of data (for example from the UN, data.gov.in or the likes) but is meant to be a straight forward visualization of Fares using a city-transport mode commonly known as 'Rickshaw', in India. The idea sprung for a competition (JS10K) where the task was to build an app less than 10k in size. I wanted to build something very useful in this limited size. Calculating Rickshaw fares are a nightmare for people anywhere in India. Basically, you pay as per the meter-reading for the vehicle (which has a conversion rule in many cities), which in-turn is based on the amount of travel you have made. Sometimes, even for the same travel the fares differ so much that it makes us feel that we are cheated most of the time. I decided to visualize this on a map (with all the associated rules) which shows you the maximum fare you should be paying and a shortest alternative as well. Well I didn't win the competition, but built a separate site for people to use it - http://faremap.in. (the competition entry link is http://10k.aneventapart.com/1/Entry/218) Hope you like it. Thank you, Jayesh Gohel -- Laura Newman Community Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/ Skype: lauranewmanonskype Twitter: @Newmanlk _______________________________________________ OKFN-IN mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-in -- Lucy Chambers Community Coordinator, OpenSpending & Data Journalism Open Knowledge Foundation Skype: lucyfediachambers Twitter: @lucyfedia -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected].
