That's great! If you happen to need any help, feel free to mail me :) Hopefully we can get other people involved, to map other places too.
Cheers. On Monday, September 23, 2013 2:06:53 PM UTC+5:30, Pranav Ravichandran wrote: > > Hi! > > I've lately been working on a transit system > simulator<http://onloop.net/transit>, > and it's turned out as a fairly holistic JavaScript library which makes it > easy to create GPS-independent transit maps. > > All we'd have to do is draw transit routes using a maps editor such as > MapsEngine > Lite <http://mapsengine.google.com/>, write a JSON file with the > schedules, and initialize the map via a JavaScript call. We don't need a > web server to host the maps either. A Github project > page<https://help.github.com/articles/creating-project-pages-manually>would > suffice, since transit maps made with the library are completely > client-side. > > That said, it would be great if we could start crowdsourcing routes and > schedules, such as in a Gihub repository, so that we can have a > pull-request-to-update workflow that enables us to easily edit them. The > upside is that since we'd be editing them directly on the map's root > directory, the transit map being rendered from that directory would be > updated then and there, with each edit. > > I've already done this for the Chennai Suburban > Railway<http://onloop.net/chennairailmap>, > from the latest available PDFs of the > schedules<http://www.sr.indianrailways.gov.in/view_section.jsp?lang=0&id=0,2,325>. > > > > Here are the links: > > The library itself, along with a preview and a tutorial on making a > transit map. <http://onloop.net/transit/> > The Chennai Suburban Rail Map, in > OpenStreetMap.<http://onloop.net/chennairailmap> > The Chennai Suburban Rail Map, in Google Maps.<http://onloop.net/chennairail> > The Repository of the Chennai Suburban Rail > Map.<https://github.com/pranavrc/chennairail> > > A friend of mine is planning to start working on mapping the Hyderabad > MMTS system, and if more people make transit maps, we'd have crowdsourced a > large number of routes and schedules, and also made interactive maps in the > process, with little to no extra effort other than for the route and > schedule creation themselves. > > Feel free to mail me if you have questions. Eager to know if anyone's > interested. > > Cheers, > Pranav. > -- 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 and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
