One more crowdsourcing tool to help crack the mystery of the autorickshaw fare http://www.meterpodu.in/
Mostly focused on Chennai but also offers support for Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Coimbatore & Mysore And here is a signature campaign for you to vent your frustration - http://www.missingmeter.com/ Rajesh www.indiapollutionmap.org On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Lucy Chambers <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]. > > -- Rajesh Rangarajan Senior Researcher Centre for Development Finance Institute for Financial Management and Research, 24, Kothari Road, Nungambakkam Chennai 600034 I India m: +919840113028 I w: http://cdf.ifmr.ac.in/ -- 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].
